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Château de Canchy, Canchy

Château de Canchy

Canchy Castle

Canchy

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Château de Canchy stands in Canchy (Calvados), in the Normandie region of France. The building is registered as a historic monument (dating recorded in the Mérimée database: 16th century, 17th century). The building is privately owned and no visits are on record.

The château de Canchy consists today of a single surviving wing of a large 16th-century fortified residence, roughly a hundred metres long, flanked by two square corner towers. The facade still shows a central pavilion topped with machicolations and pierced by a large and a small doorway, remnants of a stronghold that once guarded access to the Esque valley. Slit openings can still be seen in the surviving stairways, once used to defend the passage.

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What to know

  • The building is protected as a listed historic monument, with the square towers specifically named in the protection order.
  • Opening hours, admission fees and access conditions are not specified in the available information.
  • The structure has suffered several partial collapses, including a roof in 1970 and a tower in 1925, which explains its current ruined state.
  • The site today mostly consists of farm buildings, as the former château lost its gardens and wings over the centuries.

Where this château is

Canchy · Calvados · Normandie

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Address

Le Château, 14230 Canchy

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Château phone number

+352 691 669 740

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Heritage status
Registered historic monument (inscrit)
Mérimée record PA00111213
Period of construction
16th century, 17th century

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Sources

Identity, location and official references from Wikidata and the Mérimée register.

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The most visited in this department — Calvados

From the same period — 16e siècle

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