Château de la Forêt Neuve

En un regard

Le château en bref

The Château de la Forêt Neuve overlooks the marshes of Glénac, a commune merged into La Gacilly in 2017. The estate appears in the reformations of the nobility of 1427, 1448, 1514 and 1666. The present building is a Neo-Gothic reconstruction of 1826, carried out for Count Auguste de Foucher de Careil, who had acquired the property in 1825 and whose family retained it until 1947. This reconstruction incorporated parts of the late medieval residence, notably a large hall with a monumental fireplace whose lintel bears the date 1584 (reused), as well as a spiral staircase in schist. A chapel, dated to the fifteenth century by the inventory but to the nineteenth century according to Floquet, completes the ensemble.