Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Fort
Mézilles, Yonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Façades et toitures du château, des communs, du pigeonnier, de la chapelle ; douves et ancienne motte (cad. T 183 à 185, 188, 189) : inscription par arrêté du 28 octobre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/10/28 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Later work
- Moyen Age, 1ère moitié 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- le Fort
- Commune
- Mézilles
- Département
- Yonne
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.70080, 3.19407
- Mérimée reference
- PA89000001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1761 map "48 Vezelay, Cosne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Chapelle construite dans le troisième quart du 16e siècle. Château et communs du 17e siècle, modifiés sous la Restauration. Château construit à l'emplacement d'une ancienne motte féodale arasée dont ne subsistent que les fossés.
English translation
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History
Chapel built in the third quarter of the 16th century. Castle and outbuildings from the 17th century, modified under the Restoration. Castle built on the site of a former flattened feudal motte of which only the ditches remain.
Nearby in the register
- Maison de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Égliseéglise1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.