Maison dite des Templiers

English translation

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History

The tradition according to which this house would have belonged to the Templars has no historical proof. The street façade is pierced, at ground level, by three openings with round arches, the middle one giving access to a covered passage leading to an interior courtyard. The western and northern sides of the courtyard display, at ground level, a decoration of arcades. They comprise very flat basket-handle arches, moulded with a cyma, whose springing rests on columns with slightly swelling shaft, laid on end, by means of capitals carved with a row of confronted volutes above a row of leaves with curved ends underlined by a moulded astragal above a fillet. The bases of the columns are set on a small cubic plinth raised on a pedestal. These pedestals, themselves raised on a cubic plinth, have each of their faces decorated with a panel cut in the form of a diamond point within a moulded frame. In the north-west corner, at the exit of the corridor accessing the street, the two angled arcades are surmounted by a stone awning resting on the three capitals describing, in cantilever, on the front, a projection in the shape of a lobe. The arch of the median arcade on the west side is wider and must have corresponded to the main entrance now suppressed. This western gallery is in the extension of the wing housing the staircase of the building at no. 22 rue du Consulat, which must originally have belonged to the same house.