Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pigeonnier
Saint-Laure, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pigeonnier (cad. B 241) : inscription par arrêté du 21 mars 1988
- Protection dates
- 1988/03/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pigeonnier
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Laure
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.90403, 3.29594
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092369
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesTexas A&M University LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Monument représentatif des pigeonniers de la Limagne dont il est aujourd'hui l'unique exemple sur la commune. De plan carré, il s'élève sur quatre pilotis renforcés par des X, et est couvert par un toit en pavillon avec un clocheton à pans. Le crépis laisse deviner des colombages. Chacune des quatre faces présente deux entrées pour pigeons.
English translation
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History
Monument representative of the dovecotes of the Limagne of which it is today the unique example on the commune. Of square plan, it rises on four pillars reinforced by X-bracing, and is covered by a pavilion roof with a clock turret with facets. The render suggests timber framing. Each of the four faces presents two pigeon entrances.
Nearby in the register
- Château de Beyssatchâteau2 mi
- église Saint-Étienneéglise2 mi
- Anciennes tanneriestannerie2 mi
- Maison en pans de boismaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.