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Le château en bref
Gadelière Castle is a former fortified manor house that defended the village at the natural border between the Duchy of Normandy and the Thymerais, and it remained loyal to the Kingdom of France during the Hundred Years' War. A drawbridge tower, supported by powerful buttresses, guarded its entrance. The keep originally had an arrow slit, which was converted into residential windows around 1870. The adjoining church, Romanesque in origin but remodelled in the 16th century, houses a rich collection of furnishings from different periods, as well as a 16th-century bread oven built of brick and flint. Now a private residence, the site retains traces of the moat and of the drawbridge supports.