Château du Plessis-Bourré
Château du Plessis-Bourré, 49460 Ecuillé
- Maine-et-Loire
- Pays de la Loire
The Château du Plessis-Bourré was built in a single line between 1468 and 1473 by one of the «new men» of this end of the Middle Ages, the financier Jean Bourré, treasurer of Charles VIII, builder in the same years (1465-1469) of the Château de Langeais. It did not undergo any major transformation afterwards. The building reflects the ambivalence of the architecture at this period: to respond to the endemic insecurity, recourse to medieval forms well adapted to the defense (round towers to machicoulis at the corners of the construction, wide moat, fortified door) ; and already, requirements of comfort and aesthetic prelude to the Renaissance, which are expressed in the layout of the inner courtyard and in the design of the main body of the dwelling, to the facade of a refined Gothic and to the already regular sequencing. The ceiling of the Salle des Gardes, on the first floor, has retained one of the first painted coffered ceilings from the 15th century.
Etiquetas
Château, hôtel urbain, palais, manoir, Monument historique
