Château De Lovie

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Le château en bref

Château De Lovie, at Krombeekseweg 82 in Proven (Poperinge), is a rare example in West Flanders of an Italianate neo-Renaissance château. The protection order of 2000 describes it as a well-preserved summer pavilion, built in 1856 for Jules van Merris, a former alderman of Poperinge and Liberal member of parliament, to a design by the Kortrijk architect Pierre Nicolas Croquison (1806-1887). It forms part of a country estate with an English-style landscape park, of which the following survive: an avenue of copper beeches, ornamental ponds with a small bridge, a small neoclassical kiosk, a cast-iron garden shelter, a hunter's grotto and an ice house, as well as a neo-Gothic memorial chapel dedicated to Maria Joséphine van Renynghe, who had the estate built together with her son. The château, the chapel, the garden pavilions and the ice house are protected as monuments, and the park as a site, since 3 February 2000.