Tour de Château-Chervix, Classified keep tower in Château-Chervix, Haute-Vienne, France

Tour de Château-Chervix is a rectangular keep located in Château-Chervix that rises approximately 32 meters high with walls made of schist and granite. The structure has three interior levels and walls that measure about two meters thick, showing the solid construction methods used for such fortifications.

The Viscounts of Limoges built this tower in the 12th century to serve as a prison for their rivals. English forces later captured the fortification, demonstrating its importance in the region's medieval power struggles.

The tower's name, "La Tour", is what locals call the keep, and the site now belongs to the commune of Château-Chervix. Jackdaws and turtle doves nest in the many cavities of the stonework, and groups of jackdaws fly around the tower regularly, calling and chasing one another.

The keep stands on a height of 418 m in the commune of Château-Chervix, Haute-Vienne. Only the tower and a few low wall stumps remain, buried in vegetation; the enclosure walls of 12 to 15 m seen around 1860 are gone. The main entrance was 7.30 m above ground, so the interior is not reached from ground level.

The fire of 6 October 1553 was set by the priest Bernardiera, not by François de Coignac, who had fled to Puy-de-Bar. Bernardiera killed Coignac's wife and children in the alchemy laboratory, piled the bodies there and burned them; the blaze spread to the castle but spared the keep. A young shepherd hiding in the cellar survived and told the story.