Château de la Sayette

The Château de la Sayette, in the Deux-Sèvres, recorded since 1123, went through the upheavals of history: occupied by the English, besieged by the Huguenots, then sold as national property in the Revolution. In the 19th century the architect Boyer was commissioned to remodel it and built a neo-Gothic chapel between 1856 and 1882.

Surrounded by a park closed by 18th-century gates, the château has a two-storey central block with dormers, flanked by two 19th-century pavilions under hipped roofs, and two half-projecting towers with pepper-pot roofs at the back. Inside, two salons and several upstairs bedrooms have kept their 18th-century panelling. The chapel is arranged around a central square module surrounded by four rectangular chapels and has eleven stained-glass windows made in 1856 and 1882 by Lobin of Tours and then Fournier. Protected elements include the Assumption window, two gates and the façades and roofs of the medieval residence.

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