Château de Sourniac, Medieval castle in Sourniac, France.

Château de Sourniac, also called château de Sartiges, stands at 630 m altitude east of Sourniac village and north of Mauriac, near a one-hectare pond. The 1636 building mixes medieval and Renaissance styles: three round towers with conical roofs around the main logis, rough grey-brown stone walls with light quoins, dormer windows on the roof slope, and a small gabled porch. A neo-Romanesque chapel with neo-Gothic openings adjoins it.

The current structure was raised in 1636 to replace a much older fortress that stood on the same ground centuries before. That earlier stronghold fell to military forces during the conflicts of medieval times, and this newer castle was built as a response to those events and changing needs.

The castle is also called château de Sartiges, after the family whose fief it was and who renovated it, notably Count Louis de Sartiges. The neo-Romanesque chapel, built in 1890 to plans by the Auvergne architect René Moreau, replaced a mid-18th-century service wing lost to a fire in 1885. The building was sacked in late June and early July 1789, during the Revolution.

The castle stands at 630 m altitude east of Sourniac village and north of Mauriac, beside a pond. It is a private property and cannot be visited, so there is no access to the interior or grounds; the buildings and chapel are seen only from the public road outside.

The chapel that stands beside the castle replaced a mid-18th-century service wing destroyed by fire in 1885; it was built in 1890 to plans by the Auvergne architect René Moreau. The castle itself keeps only a few traces of the 11th-century fortress destroyed in the 14th century by Robert Knolles's English troops.