Tilly-sur-Seulles Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Tilly-sur-Seulles Castle was a castle that stood in the commune of Tilly-sur-Seulles, in the Calvados department, Normandy, France. The first castle was destroyed at the end of the Middle Ages and then rebuilt. In the eighteenth century, the intendant of the generality of Caen, François-Jean Orceau de Fontette, had a new castle built, probably by the architect Antoine Matthieu Le Carpentier and then by Guillaume-Martin Couture. This castle, with a central main block flanked by two pavilions and two curved wings, was sold during the French Revolution. It passed through several hands before being partially demolished in the mid-nineteenth century, and the remaining main block was destroyed by the bombardments of the Battle of Normandy in 1944.