Sainte-Anne Manor (Château du Guéric)

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Le château en bref

Sainte-Anne Manor, known as the Château du Guéric, overlooks the Guéric cove on the Île-aux-Moines, in the Gulf of Morbihan. First mentioned in 1532 as the property of Louise de Quélen and Olivier d'Aradon, lords of Kerran, it was bought in 1669 by Henry Daviers, a merchant and syndic of Vannes, and then in 1711 by the Guillo du Bodan family. The former 17th-century residence has disappeared; the present manor house, probably built in the late 18th or early 19th century, has an elongated plan of five bays, with a first floor and attics, a symmetrical façade with central pilasters in dressed stone, walls of rubble stone rendered with plaster, and a hipped slate roof. The estate includes a chapel probably predating 1711, to which an apse was added in the 19th century, a devotional granite fountain, outbuildings dating from around 1800, and an enclosed garden. A private property, it is open occasionally for cultural events.