Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château
Méricourt-sur-Somme, Somme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le château (la tour de fortification médiévale et le corps de logis du 18e siècle en totalité, les écuries, la remise et la serre) , le parc et jardin et le réseau hydraulique ancien (cad. AC 35a, 35b, 35c, 35d, 35g ; AD 158) : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age, 17e siècle, 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Méricourt-sur-Somme
- Département
- Somme
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.90754, 2.67051
- Mérimée reference
- PA80000041
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesMaps Collection, State Library VictoriaDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Picardia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'une des murailles de ce château en pierre de taille conserve encore l'écusson des Le Fournier qui le reconstruisirent en 1655 et devinrent seigneurs de Mericourt en 1667.
English translation
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History
One of the walls of this castle in ashlar stone still preserves the escutcheon of the Le Fournier family who rebuilt it in 1655 and became lords of Mericourt in 1667.
Nearby in the register
- Égliseéglise1 mi
- Égliseéglise3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.