Le Grand Pressigny
Description
On the summit of a hill
dominating the district
standing on a low motte is a 30' square keep 82' high. The
lower
2 floors are vaulted, but the upper 2 had wooden floors, while the
entrance was on the first floor.
The keep is similar to others in the region, viz. La Roche-Posay, Loudun and Moncontour, while other such pilaster buttressed keeps exist much father afield, viz. Montricoux in the south. Two sides of the keep collapsed in 1988.
The keep is surrounded by a curtain with round towers and a twin
D-shaped gatehouse. There is a second keep of the fifteenth
century towards the NE of the enceinte called the Tour
Vironne.
The castle now houses a prehistory museum.
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Paul Martin Remfry
