Château de la Ville-Aubert

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Le château en bref

The Château de la Ville-Aubert stands at Campénéac, on the edge of the Forêt de Paimpont (Morbihan). In 1826 the estate belonged to the Dubourg family and comprised a house probably derived from an older manor, courtils (small enclosed plots), an orchard, a wood and a pond. The former building was destroyed by fire in 1900; the present château was rebuilt shortly afterwards, in the first quarter of the 20th century, possibly by the Rennes-based architect Frédéric Jobbé-Duval, an attribution resting on stylistic analysis. H-shaped in plan, it combines a rectangular central block with two projecting pavilions and a semi-projecting stair tower, set on a basement, with a raised ground floor, an upper floor and attics. Built of rubble masonry with dressed-stone surrounds and roofed in slate, it belongs to the regionalist Neo-Renaissance style, its decoration concentrated on the entrance and the pediments. Since 1953 it has housed the Cistercian Abbey of Joie Notre-Dame, which came from Sainte-Anne-d'Auray.