Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château de la Bournalière
Cuhon, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Le pigeonnier, en totalité (cad. ZV 56) : inscription par arrêté du 16 juin 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/06/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Cuhon
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.76994, 0.10506
- Mérimée reference
- PA86000023
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château sans doute d'origine médiévale, de plan en U accosté de tours cylindriques et entouré de fossés. Vendu à la Révolution, le château est démoli et plusieurs bâtiments sont construits au cours du 19e siècle en réutilisant des éléments de communs de l'ancienne basse-cour du château. Le pigeonnier-porche, du 17e siècle, est le seul vestige authentique du château. Il constituait l'entrée latérale est de la basse-cour. Le rez-de-chaussée comprend une porte charretière et une porte piétonnière.
English translation
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History
Castle probably of medieval origin, with a U-shaped plan flanked by cylindrical towers and surrounded by moats. Sold at the Revolution, the castle is demolished and several buildings are constructed during the 19th century by reusing elements from the outbuildings of the former castle lower courtyard. The 17th-century porch tower, is the only authentic vestige of the castle. It constituted the eastern lateral entrance to the lower courtyard. The ground floor comprises a carriage entrance and a pedestrian entrance.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.