Take advantage of over €95 in cumulative savings on all PASS member and partner sites, so you can visit at a smart price!
Privilege Pass price at Château de la Chapelle d’Angillon: €7 instead of €10 for the visit
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 3What you'll like
Activities
Individual guided tour
Individual: €10
Visits by appointment with the owner: €15
Reduced rate: €7
Free for children under 7 years old
Guided group tour
For groups, a guided tour/lecture by Count Jean d’OGNY, owner of the château: Alain-Fournier Museum, Royal Albania in the 19th century, Château collections (Murillo, Della Robbia, furniture, tapestries, etc.).
Group rate: €10
Schedules of historical activities
Open all year round!
9am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm (until 7pm in summer), closed on Sunday mornings.
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon Fetes Medievales｜piranga
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon Fetes Medievales｜piranga 1Grandes Fêtes Médiévales
On the program: medieval market, shows and concerts over 3 days, during the first weekend of September.
Online ticketing coming soon
Other events
- Car days
- Flea market
- Plant festival
For more information, call 02 48 73 41 10
Practical info
- Annual opening hours
Open all year round
9am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm (until 7pm in summer), closed on Sunday mornings.
- Access and transport
Free parking in the château moat.
Paris A6 180 km, then A77 exit 19 towards Gien, then Bourges – GPS 47.36 – 2.43
- Events (weddings, seminars, etc.)
- Weddings (rental, organization)
- Event rental (lunch or dinner for groups, cocktails, seminars, parties, birthdays, etc.)
Reservations by telephone on 02 48 73 41 10 or by e-mail at jeandogny@wanadoo.fr
- Means of payment
Cheque, credit card, cash, ANCV.
- Pets
Dogs welcome.
- Host languages
Visitors welcome in French and English.
- Reduced rates (on presentation of proof)
- Young people aged 7 to 12
- Large families
- Route Jacques Cœur Privilege Pass
(click here to buy your Pass and benefit from reduced rates)
- PMR accessibility
Accessible on first floor.
Upstairs possible by prior arrangement. - Contact us
Photo gallery
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 2
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 13
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 16
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 15
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 7
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 8
Château de La Chapelle d'Angillon｜Catherine Bordier 
Château de La Chapelle d'Angillon｜Catherine Bordier 
Château de La Chapelle d'Angillon｜Catherine Bordier 
Château de La Chapelle d'Angillon｜Catherine Bordier 
Château de La Chapelle d'Angillon｜Catherine Bordier Find out more about the location
Owned by the powerful de Sully (or Seully) family since the 11th century
Château de la Chapelle d’Angillon, also known as Château de Béthune, consists of a group of buildings arranged in a rectangle around a central courtyard, flanked at the corners by round towers.
At the south-east corner, a square tower known as the keep appears to be “the oldest specimen of military architecture in the département”, according to Buhot de Kersers.
The upper floors are linked by a straight staircase built into the thickness of the west wall.
The château was fortified in the 13th century: the entrance pavilion, composed of two truncated towers with ball-and-socket archways, frames a 15th-century vaulted basement, itself raised by a more recent brick construction preserving traces of the portcullis and drawbridge system; an estimate for repairing the château’s roofs, dated 1719, describes a more complex roof with several pavilions, dormer windows and towers, probably modified in the 19th century.
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 10
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 6
Chateau De La Chapelle Dangillon｜route Jacques Coeur 4The second half of the 15th century saw the construction of the dwelling, the chapel (whose bell tower, reported in 1719, no longer exists) and the octagonal stair tower set into the corner of the keep, which is pierced by windows. The former kitchen, in the basement of the dwelling, features a fireplace with arched hood and a cross-vaulted ceiling. The monograms of Charles de Bourgogne and Marie d’Albret, who were united in 1456, can be seen inside the main hall.
The two brick stair turrets on the rear side of the postern and dwelling date from the late 15th century. In the first half of the 16th century (circa 1530), construction began on a gallery overlooking the courtyard. According to Sully’s accounts, it was unfinished in 1606.
It comprises seven arcades supported by 8 pillars, the shafts of which are decorated with foliage in bas-relief, and the capitals with foliage scrolls. Largely hidden and distorted (used as a stable in the 19th century), it was fully restored in the 1980s.
In 1605, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, purchased the lands and château of La Chapelle d’Angillon from the Duc de Nevers. In 1605, embellishment work began: walls were built around the park, which was completely refurbished. The drawbridge was demolished and the 13th-century towers razed to the ground; all the windows in the dwelling were rebuilt or opened on the east side towards the pond; the great hall was re-panelled.
In 1606, a round tower was built on the east facade, and the moat was widened and bricked up: the bossed corner buttresses with their large, perforated chamfer, which line the east terrace, bear witness to this development. The inner terrace in front of the chapel and dwelling was also built at this time. The keep was covered with a new pavilion roof. In 1808, François Dumontde la Charnaye, an important figure in the administration of the First Empire in Berry, bought the château and its grounds.
Abandoned for over a century, the château was severely damaged during a bombardment in 1940; the roofs were completely rebuilt after 1945 as war damage. Listed as a historic monument since 1963, the château undergoes regular restoration work.
Find Château de la Chapelle d’Angillon on its website and networks:
Need more information?
