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Le château en bref
About five hundred metres west of the centre of Donges, in Loire-Atlantique, the Manoir de la Hélardière is a rare survival of late medieval Breton seigneurial housing, now neighbouring the installations of the refinery. Built largely during the last quarter of the fifteenth century and the first quarter of the sixteenth, it is arranged around an enclosed courtyard and shows several phases of construction. Its seigneurial residence contains a lower hall with an exposed timber roof frame, typical of such houses, as well as a chapel; the main façade opens onto a park. The residence and the chapel, in their entirety, along with the façade and the courtyard-facing roof slope of the west wing, have been listed as monuments historiques since 29 March 2012. The manor is privately owned.