Issac · Dordogne
The garden within the double enceinte of Montréal
Montréal at Issac is a Renaissance château inside a double ring of ramparts adapted from the twelfth to the seventeenth century; its garden lies within those walls, with the chapel of the Holy Thorn in view.
From the source
Château de Montréal is a château at Issac, Dordogne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 12th, 13th, 16th and 19th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record is a military history: an English or French possession on the edge of Aquitaine, dismantled in 1430, rebuilt and fortified after Michel de Peyronenc fought at Castillon in 1453 and brought back the Holy Thorn still kept in the chapel, refortified again in the Wars of Religion with new walls and four drawbridges, and given a gun platform in the seventeenth century. The 1991 classification covers the façades, the double enceinte and the chapel of about 1539 with its painted vault, the postern and drawbridge, the underground rooms and the ground of the court. The clipped yews on the lawn within the ramparts are documented by the photograph rather than by the record.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00082578 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
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