After four weeks of the doors of St Junien, I suspect we’re all ready for a bit of a change of scenery so today the caravan has packed up and moved on to the town of Confolens, in the neighbouring Charente département. Like St Junien, Confolens has a modern shell around a medieval core, and it’s also on a river, in this case the Vienne, but overall – at least in my opinion – it’s a lot more scenic.

There’s plenty to look at, especially in the older part, so I might as well crack on with this first instalment, beginning with some characteristic sixteenth-century exteriors (in the UK, we’d call this ‘Tudor’).

Maintaining the careworn theme:

Although so as not to give the impression that the whole place is just falling to bits, here are a couple of more dignified – and blue – examples:

More from Confolens next week: perhaps some doors that have found themselves a good home.

Thursday Doors 2 March 2017