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Commanderie de Jussy-le-Chaudrier

Jussy-le-Chaudrier

Dimensions
Fortified rural ensemble: chapel (truncated), ground-floor halls, tower known as the "archives tower" (late 15th–16th c.), garden gateway.
Period
First recorded in 1170. Templar activity until 1312, then transfer to the Hospitallers, who gave the site its later name of "commanderie des Bordes".
What stands there
chapel, ground-floor halls, archives tower, garden gateway — protected as historic monuments

Recorded from 1170, the commandery of Jussy-le-Chaudrier passed to the Hospitallers after 1312 and then took the name "commanderie des Bordes" — indeed most of the buildings visible today, including its so-called "archives tower", date from this late Hospitaller period rather than from the Templar era proper. The chapel, truncated but still standing, preserves damaged stained glass and an exposed timber roof. Now private property, the ensemble nonetheless remains one of the rare examples in the Cher where several buildings of a single Templar-then-Hospitaller commandery can still be read side by side.

Commanderie de Jussy-le-Chaudrier — Wikipédia ↗

Further reading

Getting there : private property; the chapel is not open to the public

Opening times and access details are given as a guide only: check before you set out.

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Ambient sound

Commanderie de Jussy-le-Chaudrier
Fitamant · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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