Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pigeonnier du Fresne
Gourgé, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pigeonnier du Fresne, y compris son mécanisme (cad. BK 43) : inscription par arrêté du 13 novembre 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/11/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pigeonnier
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Gourgé
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.70648, -0.15803
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101405
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le manoir est une construction d'origine médiévale qui a conservé une tourelle avec son escalier à vis. Le pigeonnier formait une des tours de l'enceinte primitive du domaine. Le dessus de porte conserve des moulurations du début du 16e siècle. L'ouvrage a conservé boulins et échelle tournante.
English translation
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History
The manor is a construction of medieval origin which has retained a turret with its spiral staircase. The dovecote formed one of the towers of the primitive enclosure of the estate. The area above the door retains mouldings from the early 16th century. The structure has retained boulins and rotating ladder.
Nearby in the register
- Château de la Roche-Fatonchâteau1 mi
- Croix de cimetièrecroix de cimetière2 mi
- Église Saint-Hilaireéglise2 mi
- Château de Payréchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.