Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Monclar
Saint-Georges-de-Montclard, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château, les sols, les terrasses et les clôtures (cad. B 263 à 265) : inscription par arrêté du 22 octobre 2007
- Protection dates
- 2007/10/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château, site archéologique
- Main period of construction
- limite 15e siècle 16e siècle, 4e quart 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une société privée
- Commune
- Saint-Georges-de-Montclard
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.93182, 0.62090
- Mérimée reference
- PA24000063
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le château se dresse sur une motte jadis entourée de fossés, site d'une première forteresse. A la Révolution, puis au 19e siècle, le château fut dépecé de ses charpentes et maçonneries. De l'édifice de la fin du 15e ou du début du 16e siècle, seul subsiste une haute tour rectangulaire qui occupe peut-être le site de l'ancien donjon. Cette tour est l'angle sud-ouest du corps de logis et en représente le tiers. Les vestiges à l'est témoignent du volume initial du château.
English translation
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History
The castle stands on a motte once surrounded by ditches, site of an earlier fortress. At the Revolution, then in the 19th century, the castle was stripped of its roof structures and masonry. Of the building of the late 15th or early 16th century, only a tall rectangular tower survives which perhaps occupies the site of the former keep. This tower is the south-west corner of the dwelling body and represents a third of it. The vestiges to the east bear witness to the original volume of the castle.
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Gaubertiechâteau2 mi
- Château de Montastrucchâteau3 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise3 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.