Manor of Vieille-Roquelle

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The Manor of Vieille-Roquelle, also known as Grande Roquelle, is located in Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou, in the Manche department. The site combines the ruins of a feudal castle with a more recent manor house. Tradition attributes the founding of the castle to Richard des Moutiers d'Allonnes, to whom Richard de Reviers granted part of the land of La Beurrière; the ruins are dated to the 13th century, and the castle has been abandoned since the 18th century. The neighbouring seigneurial residence, dating from the 15th century, retains arched doorways and a large fireplace; it is accompanied by an older residential building with an external staircase and a lintel decorated with coats of arms, a cylindrical dovecote with 1250 nesting niches on twenty-five levels, and a former chapel with a small bell turret. The estate passed to the families d'Auxais, Pitteboult and Pigousse, then to the Lefèvre de la Grimonière family at the end of the 18th century; it was acquired in 1991 by Jean-Yves Tripon. No protection as a historic monument has been identified. It should not be confused with the Manor of Gonneville, in the same commune.