The hall and the liege

Octavian Bigot, Sieur d'Esteville, was an alderman for the city of Rouen in the Assembly of Normandy.

At the assembly of the dignitaries that took place on November 4, 1596, in the St Ouen Abbey of Rouen, in the presence of King Henry IV, he represented the city of Rouen as a delegate of his majesty.

It is probably he who built this hall: "Monumental hall," said M. de Duranville, "perhaps the work of Bigot d'Esteville, who in 1602 was one of the aldermen for the city of Rouen." On a stone placed at the head of the castle stables, there is inscribed the date of 1660.

During the work carried out around 1875, a stone crest from a funeral monument probably removed and hidden at the time of the French Revolution, was placed on the ledge.

The crest in question has double coats of arms :

- the ones on the left belong to the Calvimont family and show:" Ecartelé 1 et 4 de Gueules à la Tour d’Argent, 2 et 3, d’Azur au Lion d’Or, supports Cimier, Lions d’argent."

- those on the right belong to the same family and probably to an alliance.

The Calvimont family seems to have succeeded the Bigots in the lordship of Esteville and remained their owner until 1760-1761.

Through a game of alliance, Thomas du Bosc, Earl of Radepont, lord of Tendos then inherited it, his widow passed it on to her cousin Félix Grente de Sahurs in 1822 and himself to his daughter the Countess of Bonvouloir, wife of Louis de Sainte Honorine.

On the walls of the church, on the death of her husband, she had three black marble plaques erected: one dedicated to her husband, the other two to Charles and Mary du Bosc, Count and Countess of Radepont.