Givry Manor

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Le château en bref

Givry Manor stands in Cours-les-Barres (Cher), on the banks of the Loire, opposite Fourchambault. It was the centre of a former seigneurial estate classed as a barony. From the early 13th century, Givry was among the possessions of the Barres family, who gave the commune its name. The estate then passed to the Marion family, who took the name Marion de Givry. At the end of the 17th century, Ignace Marion united the seigneuries of Givry and La Môle with that of Le Lieu, another fief in the parish. In the 19th century, the estate returned to the Jaubert family: Count Jaubert, heir to the Givry estate, financed the restoration of the neighbouring church of Saint-Pantaléon in the 1860s. From 1754, the church's north chapel had served as the seigneurial chapel of the Marion de Givry family. The place name also gave its name to the Fourchambault-Givry bridge over the Loire and to the Givry junction canal. The sources consulted do not describe the building itself; its date of construction and its architecture remain unknown.