Château de la Foy

English translation

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History

La Foy was an annex of the monastery founded in 1094 by a lord named Chandéric, who had given it to the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Martial de Limoges. The monastery passed to the secular clergy in 1536. The chapel disappeared at the end of the Hundred Years' War. After the monks, la Foy, which was a noble fief, passed into the hands of different families. Two periods are distinguished in the construction which forms a large quadrilateral. The oldest, from the 15th or 16th century, comprises on the ground floor: the vaulted corridor whose walls are in ashlar stone with mortar joints, the kitchen also vaulted with the same masonry and the floor covered with small stones. To the north are preserved two arrow slits. The most recent part, built in 1719, comprises the drawing room and dining room with a fireplace in Régence style. On the first floor are three bedrooms with parquet and Louis XIV stone fireplace. Two other rooms retain Louis XVI stone fireplaces. The kitchen retains a fireplace plaque in cast iron bearing a religious emblem, and a stone cross from the end of the 14th century representing, on one side Christ; on the other, the Virgin and Child.