Tour de Trébaïx

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Tour de Trébaïx stands in the hamlet of the same name, in the commune of Villesèque, in the Lot département. It is the principal surviving remnant of a commandery founded by the Templars in the early thirteenth century, attached to the bailiwick of Quercy and dependent on Lacapelle-Livron, before passing to the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. It is a rectangular tower derived from a former tower-hall dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its ground floor contains a vaulted fourteenth-century chapel, lit by an oculus, whose sculpted keystone depicts Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of the Hospitallers; the doorways have pointed arches. The tower also retains defensive openings and latrines, while its upper chamber was remodelled in the sixteenth century. The residential building that accompanied it, which fell into ruin in the nineteenth century, has disappeared. The tower has been listed in its entirety as a monument historique since 22 January 2004; it is privately owned.