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Château de la Grande Filolie

Saint-Amand-de-Coly

Dimensions
Dwelling buildings laid out in a quadrilateral, almost blind at the lower level, with lauze roofs and towers with machicolations. A square tower at one angle of the enclosure, a round tower at the other; a rounded entrance arch protected by a hoarding, drawbridge slots still visible, a brattice above the door. A small L-shaped north-east block, the oldest; a large west wing with a vaulted cellar and two square towers. The chapel of Sainte-Marie de la Conception, of the 17th century, marked with a Maltese cross and panelled. The east wing was destroyed after 1892.
Period
First building in the 14th century, alterations of the 15th and 16th centuries; chapel of the 17th; homage of Antoine de Beaulieu in 1479, his descendant lord of la Filolie in 1536 and probably its builder.
What stands there
Inscribed as a monument historique on 18 March 1947, Mérimée record PA00082793. Private property. The Huguenots destroyed part of it in 1572. The name comes from an old oil mill set on the stream — in 1873, eleven places bore that name in the Dordogne.

La Grande Filolie is tucked into a small valley south-west of Saint-Amand-de-Coly, between Montignac and Terrasson. Its name comes from an old oil mill that turned on the stream. Antoine de Beaulieu did homage in 1479 for a noble house held of Montignac; his descendant, lord of la Filolie in 1536, was probably the builder of the present group, a quadrilateral of ranges, towers and lauze roofs. The Huguenots destroyed part of it in 1572. At the beginning of the 17th century, Jean de Beaulieu married Hipolite Angèle de Salignac Fénelon, the archbishop's sister. The castle was inscribed as a monument historique on 18 March 1947.

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Getting there : Visiting conditions not known. The castle can be seen from the road south-west of Saint-Amand-de-Coly.

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Château de la Grande Filolie
Père Igor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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