Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay · Deux-Sèvres
The wide moats of Sanzay
Mentioned as early as 810, destroyed twice by the English and rebuilt in the fifteenth century, the château of Sanzay stands within wide water-filled moats.
From the source
Château de Sanzay is a château at Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay, Deux-Sèvres, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 15th, 17th and 19th centuries. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record describes an irregular, almond-shaped group of disparate buildings around a roughly pentagonal court, built in the pink-red siliceous stone of the region and local blue-grey granite, burnt in 1793 and surrounded by broad moats in water. The château with its gates and dovecote was listed in 1985. The Base Mérimée records a garden among the site’s features; the moats are the part of the setting the record describes.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00101354 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
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