The La Dixmerie estate was once owned by the Brémond d'Ars family. The tradition wants that there would have been then, in this place, a barn with the tithes and a castle. This family seems to have succeeded each other in La Dixmerie for almost two centuries. On the eve of the Revolution, this land would have belonged to Pierre-René-Auguste, knight, lord and baron of Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né, Dompierre and Orlac. Born in 1759, he was the son of Pierre de Brémond d'Ars. Pierre-René-Auguste was deputy of the nobility of Saintonge to the Estates General of 1789. He emigrated in 1792, after having served for some time in the army of the Princes. Defender of the monarchy and religion, he had signed, in 1790 and 1791, the protests against the decrees on the nobility and the clergy and on the forfeiture of the King. Returning to France at the beginning of the 19th century, he would have retired to the Dixmerie where he devoted himself to work in history and numismatics. He had published in 1778, Literary Amusements. Pierre-René-Auguste de Brémond d'Ars married Jeanne-Marie-Élisabeth de La Taste in 1785. In 1809, the La Dixmerie estate belonged to Paul Letors de Larray, former infantry captain, husband of Suzanne Billard. In 1923, La Dixmerie was owned by the Comte de Brémond d'Ars; then it passed to the Comte de Pressac de Lioncel, married in second marriage to Jeanne-Marie-Caroline Goudenoue d'Aldenhove. The latter died there on May 17, 1936. The current castle, dating back to the 1880s, was built near an old mansion. It is a residence of harmonious proportions adopting a rectangular plan and flanked on either side by short slightly projecting wings. Despite a certain architectural unity, it is nonetheless provided with a few decorative fantasies, such as the segmented pediments topped with a ball and surmounting the dormers of each wing, and more particularly the richly worked dormer window which dominates the central bay of the building.
Château de la Dixmerie 17100 La Chapelle-des-Pots, private property, cannot be visited.