Bailleul Castle
The Bailleul Castle ( French Château de Bailleul ) was built around the mid-16th century in the style of the Italian High Renaissance and is located in the French commune of Angerville-Bailleul in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy . The palace building was classified as a monument historique in July 2010 , while the palace park and the surrounding wall were already included in the French list of monuments in 2005 . The building is privately owned and cannot be visited, but the associated landscaped park is open to visitors.
history
Bertrand de Bailleul bought the land around the village of Angerville in 1534 and added his name to the property. He came from one of the oldest families in Normandy and had a castle built on the property between 1550 and 1560, although the building may not have been built until the reign of King Charles IX. took place and was strongly influenced by its model Castle Challeau (now called Castle Saint-Ange ).
In the second half of the 18th century, extensive renovations were carried out on the building and its ensemble. In 1850, the margrave lords of the castle had today's landscape park laid out. The castle was extensively restored between 1870 and 1890 , and other structural changes gave the building and its park its current appearance. Bailleul Castle was never sold in its history and is still owned by the descendants of the builder Bertrand de Bailleul.
description
Castle building
The castle building made of light limestone blocks is a massive, almost square structure, on whose high basement there are two more floors and a high, slate-covered roof. Two-story, square pavilion towers stand at its four corners . On their rooftops there used to be small, lead statuettes from the 16th century, which represented the four cardinal virtues . The number 1534 can be found on the window of a tower, a reminder of the year in which the owner bought the Angerville land. The facades facing south-east and north-west have a rich and very elaborately designed architectural ornament. The individual floors of the building are raised from one another by cornice straps .
A semicircular flight of steps leads to the portal in the center of the southeast entrance facade. Above it is the coat of arms of the Bailleul family carved in stone. The central part is particularly emphasized over all floors by columns of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian order . Its upper end is formed by a turret- like attachment with ox-eye , which, like the corner towers, is crowned by a small statuette. The large windows of the building do not come from the time it was built, but were only knocked out later. In the attic they are particularly emphasized by portholes .
The side facades of the castle are kept very simple compared to the front facade. There are only a few, small openings for light. In the middle there is a classicistic , square tower with a domed roof, which is crowned by a lantern . The most striking design feature of these pages is a loggia on the second floor, which serves as a connection between the corner towers.
The interior of the castle houses many artistic gems, including valuable paintings by old masters , for example two works by Lucas Cranach , and numerous statues by well-known sculptors.
Castle Park
The landscaped park surrounding the castle dates from the 19th century. The area includes a Gothic chapel , a pigeon tower and the former tithe barn . The park is dominated by a straight avenue that is more than a kilometer long and runs towards the castle from the southeast. Individual viewpoints of the palace park, which has several herb gardens and a hedge labyrinth to offer, also form garden sculptures in the form of statues and vases.
literature
- Jean-Pierre Babelon: Châteaux de France au siècle de la Renaissance . Flammarion, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-08-012062-X , pp. 579-581 .
- Claude Frégnac (Ed.): Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. Hachette, Paris 1966, pp. 24-31.
Web links
- Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Bailleu Castle on chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Jean-Pierre Babelon: Châteaux de France au siècle de la renaissance. 1989, p. 579.
- ^ Carl von Lorck: Castles, palaces and gardens in France. According to old templates. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 38.
- ^ Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. 1966, p. 29.
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 27.1 ″ N , 0 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E