page_title: Château de Courcy
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Courcy / Description
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Lithographie d'Engelmann montrant le château de Courcy en 1826
context_page_description: The Château de Courcy is a ruined castle in the commune of Courcy in the south of the Calvados département of France. The edifice, typical of 12th-13th century military architecture, is in danger due to the lack of protective measures, even since being added to the monument historique inventory by the French Ministry of Culture in 1975.
context_section_description: The first castle in Courcy was probably built of earth and wood.
  The structure of the fortification was conceived as a succession of three enceintes (one surrounding the village, another around the lower court and the last constituting the heart of the fortress): only the last remains.
  Surrounded by moats, the last enceinte was about 10 m high and defended by twelve towers, of which only nine round towers remain, and a square tower which probably served as a keep.
  Elsewhere in the enceinte are the remains of the Saint Catherine chapel, datable to the 12th century but having been greatly remodelled in the 15th-16th centuries.
caption: General view of the castle in a lithography of 1826 from Mémoires of the Société des antiquaires de Normandie
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