La Chapelle-Bâton · Deux-Sèvres
The park, walled kitchen garden and chapel of Les Loges
Les Loges at La Chapelle-Bâton grew from a fifteenth-century lordship into an eighteenth-century domain with a chapel in the park, a walled kitchen garden with gardener’s pavilions, a fountain and wash-house, and a dovecote of 1,500 nesting holes — all listed with the park in 2007.
From the source
Château des Loges is a château at La Chapelle-Bâton, Deux-Sèvres, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 15th, 16th, 18th 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 dates the enlargement of the house with a west wing and the building of a chapel in the park to 1776, two pavilions completing the wings to 1780, and the outbuildings and the two gates closing the court to 1820. It then lists what completes the ensemble: a dovecote with its revolving ladder and 1,500 boulins, a walled kitchen garden with pavilions serving as gardener’s lodging and store, a fountain and its wash-house, and the chapel. The 2007 listing covers all the buildings — house, outbuildings, dovecote, chapel, fountain, wash-house, basin, kitchen-garden walls, keepers’ buildings — and the park.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA79000033 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
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