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Château de Roche à Clairac dans le Lot-et-Garonne

Lot-et-Garonne

Château de Roche

    827 Roche
    47320 Clairac
Crédit photo : CHRISTIAN AIRIAU - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1700
1800
1900
2000
1er quart XVIIe siècle
Construction of the house
1886-1887
Restoration by Édouard Delpech
1899
Construction of the stable
12 juin 1927
Transfer from the fountain
27 juin 1984
Registration for Historic Monuments
20 janvier 2012
Classification of the fountain
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The fountain located in the castle park (Box ZW 51): classification by decree of 20 January 2012

Key figures

Famille de Bonnegarde - Owner under the Old Regime Holder of the estate before the 19th.
Famille Delpech - Owner in the 19th century Sponsor of restorations in 1886.
Édouard Delpech - Sponsor of the work Finances restoration in 1886-1887.
Jean-Michel Alaux - Bordeaux architect Designed the stable in 1899.

Origin and history

The Château de Roche, located in Clairac in the Lot-et-Garonne (New Aquitaine), is a building built in the 1st quarter of the 17th century. The main house, with a rectangular three-level plan, is covered with a long-paned and rumped roof, flanked by a square pavilion and two circular towers. The ensemble, covered with flat tiles, includes commons and an oratory inscribed in historical monuments since 1984. A fountain classified in 2012, transferred from Sauveboeuf Castle in 1927, adorns the park with its superimposed basins and mythological sculptures.

The estate belonged to the Bonnegarde family under the Ancien Régime, and was acquired in the early 19th century by the Delpech family of Clairac. Restoration work was carried out in 1886-1887 for Édouard Delpech, and a stable was built in 1899 by the Bordeaux architect Jean-Michel Alaux. The castle, marked by successive transformations, has a composite aspect combining elements of the sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. A funeral enclosure, sheltering the graves of the Sipière and Parmentier families, is still maintained today.

The fountain, a remarkable part of the park, consists of three basins carried by columns, decorated with heads of fauna and sirens. Its central motif depicts a rock surrounded by mythological figures, surmounted by a pinacle. Transferred from Aubas in 1927, it illustrates the heritage exchanges between private estates in the 20th century. The toponym La Roche, attested on the map of Belleyme, confirms the former defensive or seigneurial vocation of the site, typical of the buildings of this historical region of Maine and South-West.

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