Filières Castle

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Filières Castle, south side (2011)

The Filières Castle ( French Château de Filières ) dates largely from the second half of the 18th century and is located in the French commune of Gommerville in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy . Since May 31, 1946, it has been inscribed on the French list of monuments as Monument historique ( French inscrit ). Some of its rooms, with their interior furnishings from the 18th century, have even been classified as Monument historique ( French classé ) since December 13, 1947 . They can be viewed as part of a guided tour.

history

At the site of today's castle Filières was in the Middle Ages one of moats surrounded solid house , which the noble family belonged Filières and during the Hundred Years War was destroyed. Via heir daughters, the property finally passed to the Chardon family via the Le Canu de Froiderue and Le Terrier families, which were subsequently called Chardon de Filières. During the reign of Henry IV, she had the ruinous building replaced by a new building in the Renaissance style .

Louise Chardon de Filières married Jacques Eudes de Catteville, Marquis of Mirville , in 1732 and brought the plant to her husband. In the second half of the 18th century, he began to replace the logis with a representative castle according to the plans of the French architect Victor Louis . Louis had previously built the Great Theater in Bordeaux . Since the building project was interrupted by the French Revolution , today's palace has two different architectural styles in its overall construction: The younger, western part of the current mansion is in the Louis-Seize style, while the eastern part still has the characteristics of French Renaissance architecture shows.

After the death of Jacques Eudes de Catteville, his son Alexandre inherited the property. His great-granddaughter Blanche married Count Henri Hocquart de Turtot. Today the castle is inhabited by the Marquis and the Marquise de Persan. The lady of the castle is a born Hocquart de Turtot. Together with her husband, she had the southeastern palace facade restored in 2007 , before the northwestern side followed in 2011. The orangery was then renovated for three years . The last construction project from 2015 onwards was the restoration of the castle chapel , which had partially collapsed in the 1960s .

description

architecture

Pigeon tower (2011)

The entire castle complex is located within a closed courtyard, which is surrounded by planted slopes, which is typical of the region of the Pays de Caux . The area includes a former pigeon tower from the 16th century, the administrator's house, stables and ancillary buildings from the 19th century. Some of the foundations of the former medieval complex have also been preserved.

The core of the palace complex is the two-storey, elongated logis made of white limestone blocks , which has two different architectural styles. In front of it is the former court of honor , to which a bridge over the deep dry trench leads today. The courtyard has now been converted into a garden. The Logis has a three-axis central risalit in the classical style. The windows on the upper floor are flanked by fluted , Doric pilasters . They carry an entablature with triglyphs . In between there are simple rosettes and bucrania . The risalit ends in a triangular gable with the coats of arms of Filières and Mirville.

inside rooms

Inside, some rooms have been preserved with their original architectural furnishings from the 18th century. Their furnishings such as paintings, sculptures and furniture are also from this period. One of these rooms is the dining room with white and gray paneling and stucco decorations in the form of medallions showing heads in an ancient manner. Hanging over the door lintels, stucco, whose motives are children's games. The large salon is also still in its original condition. The bright white room with two monumental chimneys and Ionic columns and pilasters was designed by Jean-Marie-Joseph Ingres . This is attested by the signature that has been preserved along with the year 1783. The furnishings of the Chinese room , which owes its name to a number of painted paper wallpapers, also date from the 18th century . They show two motifs typical of chinoiserie : songbirds and flowers. The precious wallpapers were imported from East Asia at the end of the 18th century and hang in specially designated fields of the wall paneling in the Louis-quinze style .

Castle Park

An avenue of beech trees on the southwest side of the castle park is called "the cathedral" ( French la cathédrale ), because the crowns of the old trees form a kind of vault made of leaves and are reminiscent of the vaulted ceilings of large Gothic churches.

literature

  • Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. Hachette, Paris 1966, pp. 58-63.
  • Marie-Louise de Persan: Château de Filières. In: Patrimoine Normand. No. 9, June / July 1996, ISSN  1271-6006 .
  • Philippe Seydoux: Châteaux du Pays de Caux et du Pays de Bray. 2nd Edition. Éditions de la Morande, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-902091-17-6 , pp. 68-69.
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Maritime. Volume 2. Flohic, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , pp. 1186-1187.
  • Souvenirs de famille. In: Seine-Maritime. Le magazine. No. 17, July / August 2005, ISSN  1966-5857 , pp. 20-21.

Web links

Commons : Filières Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Filières Castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on January 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Seine-Maritime. Volume 2, 1997, p. 1186.
  3. ↑ The publications give very different years for the construction period. The information varies between 1768 and 1788.
  4. ↑ Vanessa Yager (Ed.): Ouverts au public. Monuments historiques: chateaux et abbayes, parcs et jardins, sites industriels et archéologiques édifices du XXe siècle. Le guide du patrimoine en France . Monum, Edition du patrimoine, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-85822-760-8 , p. 538.
  5. ↑ Newspaper article about the renovation on chateaux-france.com (French)
  6. ↑ Château de Filières - Renaissance de la chapelle du Château de Filières , accessed on January 18, 2020.
  7. ^ Philippe Seydoux: Châteaux du Pays de Caux et du Pays de Bray. 1987, p. 68.
  8. ^ Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux de Normandie. 1966, p. 62.
  9. ↑ Noël Broëlec: La Normandie. Châteaux et Demeures. Minerva, Geneva 1995, ISBN 2-83-070306-6 , p. 26.

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 41.8 ″  N , 0 ° 22 ′ 20.1 ″  E