Château du Bois-Rignoux

The Château du Bois-Rignoux is a late-19th-century château located in the commune of Vigneux-de-Bretagne (hamlet of La Pâquelais), in the Loire-Atlantique department of the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

In 1850 the estate belonged to Théophile Ceineray, a notary in Nantes and mayor of Vigneux-de-Bretagne. He was the grandson of the architect Jean-Baptiste Ceineray and married the niece of the celebrated Nantes architect Mathurin Crucy. In 1870 his son-in-law, M. Cossé — a Nantes sugar-refining industrialist and partner in the firm Cossé-Duval — built the present château and its adjoining chapel on a domain of thirty hectares of woods and meadows enhanced by two ponds.

In the second half of the 1930s the property was purchased by M. and Mme Emilien Egonneau, pork merchants. In 1962 they sold it to the Caisse primaire d’assurance maladie de Nantes, which used it as a convalescent home. The château was sold by the health-insurance fund in 2013 and is now in private ownership.

The ground floor is organised around a large gallery opening onto the park. On either side are a grand drawing room and a spacious dining room; the plan also includes a vestibule, an office and a chapel continuing from the dining room, notable for its magnificent painted ceiling.

Fully renovated, the château today serves as a wedding and event venue (approximately 80 seated or 130 standing guests) and as a large holiday rental accommodating up to about 37 people in eight bedrooms plus a room in the chapel.