About Château de Verteuil (Lot-et-Garonne)
Historic Architecture, Architecture, Fortifications, Historic, Interesting Places, Manor Houses, Castles
The Château de Verteuil, also known as Château des Vallons, is a château in Verteuil-d'Agenais, Lot-et-Garonne, France. A castrum or small fort was documented here in 1259, around the motte of which the village developed. From 1259 to 1390 the Château was in the possession of De Pis family. The Château was in a state of ruin by the end of the Hundred Years War, after which it was given in 1460 to Aymeric of Caumont, Lord of Lauzun and in his hands the Construction the present château began after 1460. The medieval remains comprise a rocky escarpment of stone, dressed and in places built up, forming a first walled fortification of around 80 metres in diameter against which lean the village houses on the north side. In the centre there is a curtain wall linking with the heptagonal and vaulted north-west tower, probably dating from the 15th century. To the east, there is a section of wall of a room with a ceiling of groined vaults on sculpted corbels columns, probably from the end of the Middle Ages. The main structure to the south-east, which is the main building , with a wing in ruins at right-angles to the north, was constructed around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries by the then owners, the De Caumont family. According to the date of a building estimate established by Sarrazi, the west side of the corps de logis was refurbished in 1839 for use as a school.
