Couronne city

The castle of the Oisellerie is located on the commune of La Couronne, close to Angouleme in Charente; it shelters the agricultural college of Oisellerie and the Departmental Center of Teaching Documentation.

The first castle which constitutes one of the wings is a multi-story building, with the sloping roof covered with tiles punts; a square turret which contains the spiral staircase presents later crenels.

Two turrets form the angles of the primitive court; they found their roofs with pepper plantation and is taken in the commun runs. A square house was built later between the square turret and the southern pinion.

The large northern wing, the cylindrical gross tower and the rectangular house are medium of XVI century. Some of the roofs are covered with tiles punts, others of the slates.

The entry presents a door pedestrian and a riding door surmounted by let us merlons and crenels.

The Notre-Dame abbey of La Couronne is a Benedictine abbey located in La Couronne in Charente. In ruins, it testifies to the introduction of the Gothic style into the West

The part currently visible completion date of XII century, except for the two Western spans of the nave and the frontage gothic scripts. These buildings represent the forms of the Gothic of the West.

The site belongs to two different owners: the home, main courtyard, buildings monastic, the park and its accesses with the establishments Lafarge Cements.

The cloister and the abbey belong to the General advice of Charente.