Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Logis de Brieuil
Chenay, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Logis (cad. D 41) : inscription par arrêté du 2 mars 1993
- Protection dates
- 1993/03/02 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Chenay
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.32552, -0.06455
- Mérimée reference
- PA00125683
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The County of Pictavia. Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La seigneurie de Brieuil apparaît dans la dernière moitié du 12e siècle. Les seigneurs ne sont connus qu'à partir de la deuxième moitié du 15e siècle. Le domaine est un grand quadrilatère bordé, au nord et à l'ouest, de murs et de communs ayant conservé quelques éléments anciens (consoles de hourdage, portail à impostes et blason). Le logis proprement dit est constitué de deux corps en retour d'équerre et d'une grande tour carrée dans l'angle nord-ouest. Il forme les côtés nord et ouest d'une cour anciennement fortifiée dont il ne subsiste que le fossé sud et la tour d'angle sud-est qui a perdu son dernier niveau. Le corps de bâtiment principal, à l'ouest, est une construction des 15e et 16e siècles, remaniée au début du 17e siècle. L'aile nord, avec sa galerie à cinq arcades et la grosse tour quadrangulaire, accessible par un escalier en vis en oeuvre, doivent dater de la grande campagne du 17e siècle.
English translation
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History
The seigneurie of Brieuil appears in the last half of the 12th century. The lords are known only from the second half of the 15th century. The domain is a large quadrilateral bordered, to the north and west, by walls and outbuildings which have retained some old elements (timberwork corbels, portal with imposts and coat of arms). The main dwelling proper consists of two bodies at right angles and a large square tower in the north-west corner. It forms the north and west sides of a formerly fortified court of which only the south ditch and the south-east corner tower, which has lost its top level, remain. The main building, to the west, is a construction of the 15th and 16th centuries, remodelled in the early 17th century. The north wing, with its gallery of five arcades and the large square tower, accessible by a spiral staircase in situ, should date from the major 17th-century campaign.
Nearby in the register
- Maison dite Logis des Foucaultmaison1 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise1 mi
- Temple protestanttemple2 mi
- Dolmendolmen2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.