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Le château en bref
The Château de Lignères, in Lignères-Sonneville (Charente) – not to be confused with the Château de Lignères in Rouillac, in the same department, nor with its namesake in the Cher – is mentioned as early as 1116 through a certain Geoffroy de Lignères, cited in the archives of the Abbey of La Couronne. In 1493, Guy Poussard obtained rights of high justice for his seigneury. The present château, built in the 17th century, is surrounded by water-filled moats and has a rectangular main block with one upper floor beneath a mansard roof, flanked by two pavilions with galleries on corbels over machicolations. Its first-floor fireplaces have been registered (inscrites) as monuments historiques since 1973, and its façades and roofs classified since 1977. It now houses the town hall of Lignères-Sonneville.