Name -
Chateau de Bagnac
Location -
Saint-Bonnet-de-Bellac
Department -
Haute-Vienne 87
State -
Chateau Ruin
The current chateau as she sits today, it is situated in the Haute Vienne, Dept 87.
The only part of the chateau which dates from XIVth century is the big tower of the chateau, capped with a very steep roof during the rebuilding of the chateau this currently holds the old bedrooms and the cave.
Let us note that this chateau was entirely rebuilt because at the beginning, the Marquis and the Marchioness de Bagnac did not intend to rebuild it but to just restore it.
However what seemed to be a restoration passed to a rebuilding project after 1875. The Chateau remained nothing more than a building site for more than 25 years and The Bagnac Family absorbed insane sums of money into their project.
The Marquis and the Marchioness de Bagnac had envisaged a room intended for the Comte de Chambord. A balcony opens into its room in the church above so that the attendee can attend the mass. But the Comte de Chambord never came to Bagnac.
Others should be well be ashamed : plundering of the stones, the woodwork and the sculptures by visitors, as well as the stones thrown at the stained glass windows.
Please Respect the Chateau de Bagnac....
The glorious and stunning Chateau de Bagnac, situated in the Haute-Vienne department of France, sat in ruin since becoming abandoned in the 1950's, was a true delight on the eye in its day..
How it looks today.
a sad look via Google Earth
Before it became what it is today.
Medieval Floor Plan
These maps also show the plots in this form before its transformation in the XIVth century although Bagnac is listed as Bugnac, whether this is an error is to be confirmed.
Current day Floor Plan.
Current day Floor Plan and the old on top of another...
If you study the floorpan in bit more scale, its almost possible to align the 2 buildings into one another maybe proving it was more than jusqt the tower dating to the XVth century...
In its day..
from what i have seen these photo dates to around 1935 or before as the roof to the main house is still there
From what i have seen these photo dates to around 1945 as the roof on the left part of the property had been replaced with a more primitive corrugated style roof but the roof window openings are still in place.
From what i have seen this photo dates to around 1950 or after, the roof on the right part of the property had been replaced with a more primitive corrugated style roof but now the roof window openings are gone.
From what i have seen this photo dates to around 1975 at this time the building would have already been abandoned for over 25 years.
Earlier Ruin Photo from after 1975 still show the Vestible (main entrance) which has now long gone.
Blek le Rat - http://bleklerat.free.fr - 80's Parisian Stencil Artist
Note the floor still in the chateau and the darkness of the photo also show it still has ceilings, long since disappeared under the weight of broken roofs, floors and walls.
I am sure that this picture was taken the same time as the one above.?
Beautiful painting by an artist called Lionel Le Falher named L'Agonie de Bagnac
