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Ancienne halle aux grains

Auvillar, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Halle aux grains (ancienne) : classement par arrêté du 30 avril 1946
Protection dates
1946/04/30 : classé MH
Type
marché couvert
Main period of construction
2e moitié 18e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Auvillar
Département
Tarn-et-Garonne
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
44.07037, 0.89970
Mérimée reference
PA00095680

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1742 map "Languedoc, occidentale." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La halle se situe au centre de la place triangulaire qu'entourent des maisons dont le rez-de-chaussée forme galerie couverte, localement appelée "Enbans". De plan circulaire, la halle comprend deux parties. Un portique extérieur soutenu par vingt colonnes doriques à fût renflé. Un noyau central ajouré de huit arcades sur lesquelles s'élèvent une lanterne qu'éclairent quatre fenêtres. Dans cette partie centrale, au sol surélevé de quelques marches, se trouvent les anciennes mesures en pierre. Les experts jurés et le fonctionnaire chargé de la police du marché devaient s'y tenir.

English translation

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The market hall is situated in the centre of the triangular square surrounded by houses whose ground floor forms a covered gallery, locally called "Enbans". Of circular plan, the hall comprises two parts. An exterior portico supported by twenty Doric columns with swollen shafts. A central core pierced by eight arcades on which rises a lantern lit by four windows. In this central part, on a floor raised by a few steps, are the old stone measures. The sworn experts and the official in charge of market police were to stand there.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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