Manoir D Ango Entrance

Title

Manoir D Ango Entrance

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

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This is the second time I have visited this amazing manor in Varengeville, Normandy, The first time some friends who may be related to the family who ownes this estate brought us here over 10 year's ago. I found this structure and the brickwork amazing. I had to come back.

This manor house is an outstanding example of the Italian Renaissance in the Pays de Caux. This unique brick and stone building, built by Jehan Ango, a patron and a shipowner from Dieppe used his wealth from sea voyages to build this manor. He chose Varengeville to build his summer manor house. Styles and materials came from Florence and Normandy. Build about 1535, the central building and the outbuildings were constructed around a circular courtyard with a brick and stone round dovecote in the middle. The dovecote is designed with beautiful multi-coloured bricks, flint and sandstone.. It is considered as one of the most beautiful dovecotes in France.

Ango was also a very rich maritime Governor of the thriving port of Dieppe.

In my searches to come back here I was stymied in my attempts to locate this manor. I had no idea this round structure was a dovecote. Do you know it's uses?

A dovecote or dovecot, doocot or columbarium is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Doves were considered to be a food source, their eggs were eaten and the dung was used as fertilizer on the estate.

In this estate setting, many prestigious guests came, artists, scholars and scientists, merchants and King Francis I himself, who visited in 1535.

One more reason for a visit to Varengeville, a very interesting stop along the Alabaster Coast.

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