Moulin-cavier de Nouan-sur-Loire

English translation

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History

This mill already existed at the beginning of the 19th century. It retains all of its masonry elevation, consisting of the cone and the circular mass. Elements of the cone's roof structure, sole plates and rafter feet, still subsist. They maintained the huse, or hollow vertical pivot, through which passed the main shaft that transmitted the movement to the millstones placed on the ground floor. Several doors, surmounted by small openings to ventilate and light the cone, give access to adjoining rooms, one excavated within the mass, the other built against the mass. This cavier mill constitutes, together with those of Crapeaudeau and Ecuelle, the group of the three last cavier-type windmills existing in the department.