Château de Payré

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Le château en bref

Payré Castle, at La Peyratte (Deux-Sèvres), is a late medieval residence (14th–16th centuries) with a fortified appearance, built within a polygonal courtyard bordered by farm buildings. The rear façade is flanked by two round corner towers, and the courtyard façade opens through a central doorway surmounted by a moulded pediment. Attached to the main building, the 14th-century chapel, rectangular and covered by a moulded timber roof of the English type, retains remains of a portal and of an east window, as well as hard-to-read wall paintings depicting full-length figures of great personages. The façades and roofs of the castle have been listed as a monument historique since 8 October 1986, and the chapel, with its paintings and roof timbers, has been classified since 20 April 1990. The château is privately owned.