Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château fort de Joyeuse
Dunières, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château fort en totalité (cad. AY 115) : inscription par arrêté du 18 novembre 2002
- Protection dates
- 2002/11/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château fort
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Later work
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Dunières
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.21259, 4.33242
- Mérimée reference
- PA43000030
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "88 St.-Etienne, St.-Marcellin." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Tour édifiée dans la lignée des tours circulaires construites à partir du 13e siècle selon le modèlephilippin issu des progrès apportés par Philippe-Auguste dans l'architecture militaire. Cette construction en présente les principales caractéristiques : fonctions mixtes défensives et résidentielles, épaisseur des murs, escalier pris dans l'épaisseur des murs. Présence d'éléments archaïques tel que le voûtement par coupole. Au 19e siècle, des restaurations dotent la tour d'un couronnement.
English translation
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History
Tower built in the line of circular towers constructed from the 13th century onwards according to the Philippian model arising from the advances brought by Philippe-Auguste in military architecture. This construction presents its main characteristics: mixed defensive and residential functions, thickness of the walls, staircase set within the thickness of the walls. Presence of archaic elements such as vaulting by cupola. In the 19th century, restorations provide the tower with a crown.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison Malartremaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.