Château des Ormes

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Le château en bref

The Château des Ormes, at Epiniac, was a country residence of the bishops of Dol from the Middle Ages onward. The main residential block probably dates from the fourteenth century; the former synodal hall, later converted into a chapel, dates from the second half of the fifteenth century and features two large windows and a pointed-arch doorway. At the end of the sixteenth century, Bishop Charles d'Épinay had a tall two-storey Renaissance pavilion built at the southern end, in brick and stone – probably the only example in Brittany of the style of the royal building works of the 1580s and 1590s – fitted with a "rampe sur rampe" staircase. A second pavilion was added around 1780 at the northern end, and a windmill with underground chambers was built in 1818. Major renovations affected the central block at the beginning of the twentieth century. A privately owned estate, it now operates as a 45-room hotel with an 18-hole golf course.