Fontenay-le-Comte · Vendée

Château de Terre-Neuve and its garden

A late-Renaissance château at Fontenay-le-Comte, rebuilt in the nineteenth century by the engraver Octave de Rochebrune with decorative elements brought from Chambord, Coulonges and L’Hermenault; its garden is not part of the record.

Flowering plants, lawns and paths in front of Château de Terre-Neuve.
Flowering plants, lawns and paths in front of Château de Terre-Neuve. Source credit: Gdf85; CC BY-SA 3.0.Gdf85 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image source · Crop

From the source

Château de Terre-Neuve is a château at Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée, in the Pays de la Loire region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 16th and 19th centuries. Its architecture is recorded as Renaissance. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.

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Editorial reading

The record concerns the interior: the porch before the main entrance, the building that holds the stair lantern from the château of Coulonges, the hall, Rochebrune’s former studio, and the two salons with decoration from Chambord, Coulonges and L’Hermenault, all classified in 1978, with the façades listed the same year. Nothing is said of the grounds; the dahlias and lawn before the house are documented only by the photograph.

Sources

Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00110097 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée

Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Terre%20Neuve.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0

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