Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de Fontenilles
Gimont, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château et de ses communs (cad. A 605, 606) : inscription par arrêté du 3 février 1999
- Protection dates
- 1999/02/03 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Gimont
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.61897, 0.85619
- Mérimée reference
- PA32000009
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Domaine lié à la famille Decis, dont un membre fut avocat au Parlement de Toulouse au 17e siècle. Les transformations principales ont lieu au 18e siècle. Le château est situé au centre d'une composition comprenant : communs, pigeonnier, allée de chênes.
English translation
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History
Estate linked to the Decis family, one member of which was an advocate at the Parlement of Toulouse in the 17th century. The principal transformations took place in the 18th century. The château is situated at the centre of a composition comprising: outbuildings, dovecot, oak avenue.
Nearby in the register
- chapelle Notre-Dame de Cahuzacchapelleunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
- Hallehalle1 mi
- Maisonmaison1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.