Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux château de la Vesvre
Rigny-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le corps de logis du vieux château (cad. AY 34) : inscription par arrêté du 12 juin 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/06/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Rigny-sur-Arroux
- Département
- Saône-et-Loire
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.53756, 4.04428
- Mérimée reference
- PA71000050
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 1759 map "85 Chalon-sur-Saone." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le domaine se compose du vieux château et de deux corps de communs séparés du précédent. Le vieux château a été bâti au 14e siècle puis remanié au 17e. Au 19e siècle, le vieux château est abandonné au profit d'une nouvelle résidence bâtie à la lisière de la forêt voisine. Le logis ancien, de plan rectangulaire, comprend un rez-de-chaussée, un étage et des combles. Il est flanqué sur son angle nord-est d'une tour carrée. Au centre de la façade s'ouvre un porte rectangulaire entre deux pilastres toscans supportant un entablement et un fronton à décor de feuillages. L'intérieur conserve l'escalier en pierre rampe sur rampe, les plafonds à la française et des cheminées monumentales. Le château moderne est formé d'un corps principal entre deux ailes, dans le même alignement, couvertes à l'ouest de terrasses à balustrade. Le chevet à trois pans d'une chapelle de style flamboyant émerge du pignon sud.
English translation
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History
The estate consists of the old castle and two ranges of outbuildings separated from the former. The old castle was built in the 14th century and then altered in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the old castle was abandoned in favour of a new residence built at the edge of the neighbouring forest. The old dwelling, of rectangular plan, comprises a ground floor, one storey and roof space. It is flanked on its north-east corner by a square tower. At the centre of the façade opens a rectangular door between two Tuscan pilasters supporting an entablature and a pediment decorated with foliage. The interior preserves the stone staircase with ramp over ramp, French ceilings and monumental fireplaces. The modern castle consists of a main body between two wings, in the same alignment, covered to the west with terraces with balustrade. The chevet with three slopes of a chapel of Flamboyant style emerges from the south gable.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Domaine de la Tuileriechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.