Ancien château de Lazenay

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History

Rare example in Bourges of civil architecture of the late 13th century or 14th century. The construction of the entrance building, the only element surviving from the estate with a castle rebuilt towards 1876 at the location of a dwelling built around 1500 by Guillaume Compaing, can be attributed to a wealthy burgess of Bourges, Robert de Clamecy. In 1574, the castle became the country house of the Jesuit college of Bourges and remained so until the Revolution, when it was sold as national property. At the beginning of the 20th century, it served as a country house for seminarians. Of rectangular plan, the entrance building consists of a square entrance porch and a rectangular building flanked, on the south, by an apse for the oven. Inside, traces of mural paintings are preserved on the storey, notably a painted border with heraldic escutcheons (14th or 15th century).