Château du Plaix

English translation

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History

Castle built in the 17th century, composed of a central main dwelling prolonged by a service wing in return and a small building on the east side. The courtyard is bordered on the east by a second service building and closed by a wall containing the entrance portal. To the north-east extends a garden with a basin, a cistern, the old and new chapels, and a wash house. The courtyard façade of the castle has been marred by the addition of a cement staircase in the early 20th century. This façade bears, on the sculpted coat of arms, the date of 1660. The garden façade overlooks an old moat. The ground floor is buried and a bridge allows access from the French door to the garden. Inside the building, presence of a 17th-century wooden stair rail. The grand romantic salon has retained its wallpaper, its polychrome marble fireplace with columns, its painted and gilt wood overmantel with pilasters, its moulded ceiling. The current chapel, dated 1880 and made by Moreau, replaces an older chapel transformed into a shed. It is a small neo-Gothic building with a single nave, of one bay, terminated by a five-sided apse, surmounted by a bell tower. The door is adorned with a set of sculptures. The walls are decorated with murals. At the same time as the chapel, this building was also to serve as a vault for the family. Near the old chapel, a cistern bears witness to the fears of the 17th-century owners of seeing a new fire destroy the castle.