Château de Fondremand: A Fortified Castle in France
Site at a Glance
- Rating
- 4.5
- Popularity
- Low
- Country
- France
- Primary era
- Medieval
- Eras represented
- Medieval, Modern
- Civilizations
- French, Holy Roman Empire
- Site type
- Military
- Remains
- Castle
History
Château de Fondremand is a fortified castle in Fondremand, France, founded in the twelfth century. Its surviving fabric reflects several phases of development, including a rectangular keep built around 1380 and later additions to the courtyard complex.
The keep stands at the western corner of the courtyard. It contains two levels with two barrel-vaulted rooms, each covered by a continuous curved ceiling. A large open interior volume also preserves the outlines of three levels that formerly had floors.
A building along the eastern side of the courtyard was added in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. Several of its rooms retain rib vaults, which are ceilings supported by intersecting structural ribs, together with monumental fireplaces. Neo-Gothic stables, designed in a revival of medieval Gothic forms, were built on the northern side of the site at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The castle was listed as a historic monument in 2004, and this protection was replaced by classification as a historic monument in 2015.
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