Château de Lanniron

English translation

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History

The château of Lanniron was built in the 17th century by Monseigneur François de Coetlogon, at the location of the former summer residence of the bishops of Quimper, on the banks of the Odet, in immediate proximity to the agglomeration. Emmanuel Calixte Harrington, a notable of English origin, undertook between 1824 and 1833 a very substantial restoration of the ancient manor created at the end of the 15th century and already enlarged once in the 1760s. It is thus with the appearance of a construction in Napoleonic style that the château appears to our eyes today. Its architect remains unknown but was most probably from local circles. The château is situated on the highest of three terraces constructed on the banks of the Odet since the end of the 17th century, at the location of the former gardens of Monseigneur de Coetlogon, of which we retain a precise description in 1860. Of these gardens several basins subsist, a body of water called the Neptune and an old canal. A reconstruction of the primitive state of these gardens seems moreover possible thanks to documents and traces on the ground which have retained, in places, great legibility.