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Castle of Billeron à Lugny-Champagne dans le Cher

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château
Cher

Castle of Billeron

    102 Billeron
    18140 Lugny-Champagne

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1300
1800
1900
2000
fin XIIe siècle
First mention of the fief
4e quart XVIIIe siècle
Construction of housing
vers 1895
Neo-Gothic Chapel
8 mars 1995
Registration Historic Monument
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Fronts and roofs of the castle; old gardens; floor, walls and gates of the courtyard; Pigeon and second round; facades and roofs of the buildings of the lower courtyard: house, barn and barn; floor, walls and entrance gate of the lower courtyard; chapel (cad. B 269, placed Le Parc, 272, 274, 275, placed Billeron): inscription by order of 8 March 1995

Key figures

Henri Tarlier - Architect Designer of the chapel (1895).
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Origin and history

Billeron's fief is attested by the end of the 12th century, but the current building was built at the end of the 18th century. It consists of a one-storey house body, accessible by a porch, and a south courtyard closed by a half moon flanked by two circular towers. This complex extends towards a second courtyard lined with buildings of commons, dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. The gardens, drawn at the same time, partially retain their original layout.

In the southwest of the castle, a neo-Gothic chapel was erected around 1895 by architect Henri Tarlier. The estate, including facades, roofs, old gardens, dovecote, and outbuildings, was listed in the Historical Monuments by order of 8 March 1995. Private property, it illustrates the architectural evolution of a rural seigneury between the former regime and the Third Republic.

The protected elements also cover grids, walls, and courtyard floors, as well as agricultural buildings (logis, barn, barn). The site, located in the Cher (Centre-Val de Loire region), reflects the spatial organization typical of noble estates, between seigneurial residence, places of worship, and farms. The accuracy of its location is considered satisfactory a priori (note 7/10).

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