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Logis de Serveaux

Les Aubiers, Deux-Sèvres, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Logis de Serveaux (cad. C 359) : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 1988
Protection dates
1988/12/21 : inscrit MH
Type
manoir
Main period of construction
15e siècle, 16e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Les Aubiers
Département
Deux-Sèvres
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.97258, -0.54215
Mérimée reference
PA00101182

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Le logis apparaît dans des textes datés de 1398. En 1576, François Ier Champlay reçoit d'Henri III le droit de fortifier la maison, pillée et incendiée pendant les guerres de Religion (1575-1576). La maison noble comptait alors de nombreuses tours d'enceinte, des boutiques et abritait les Réformés. Restauré au 16e siècle, l'édifice se présente sous la forme d'un donjon carré, cantonné d'une tour ronde et d'une tour carrée, arasées. Des canonnières côtoient des baies à traverses et meneaux. Au devant du donjon 15e siècle, une loggia fermée par un muret en moëllons terminé par une assise de dalles en granit mouluré, est ajourée de piles de section carrée et de colonnes doriques. A droite, cette loggia est fermée par un ancien oratoire en pierre de taille. L'intérieur conserve des cheminées des 15e et 16e siècles.

English translation

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The main dwelling appears in texts dated 1398. In 1576, François Ier Champlay received from Henri III the right to fortify the house, which was pillaged and burned during the Wars of Religion (1575-1576). The noble house then had numerous towers of enclosure, shops and sheltered the Reformed. Restored in the 16th century, the building presents itself in the form of a square keep, flanked by a round tower and a square tower, razed. Gun ports sit beside openings with crosses and mullions. Before the 15th-century keep, a loggia closed by a rubble stone wall topped by an ashlar course of moulded granite, is pierced with piers of square section and Doric columns. To the right, this loggia is closed by an old oratory in ashlar. The interior retains chimneys from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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