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Moulin à vent de la Garde

Avrillé, Maine-et-Loire, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Moulin à vent de la Garde (cad. B 363) : inscription par arrêté du 5 novembre 1982
Protection dates
1982/11/05 : inscrit MH
Type
moulin
Main period of construction
17e siècle (?)
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Avrillé
Département
Maine-et-Loire
Region
Pays de la Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.50944, -0.58371
Mérimée reference
PA00108955

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Les maçonneries ne semblent pas antérieures au 17e siècle. Son prédécesseur, un moulin probablement de type cavier comme lui, relevait censivement de la seigneurie de la Perrière, et son meunier devait, en 1584, une rente de 30 livres tournois aux religieux Augustins d'Angers. La masse du moulin actuel, base cylindrique contenant la cave où se trouvent les meules, s'élève à environ 4 m de hauteur et épaule la tour du massereau, le tout réalisé en moellons de schiste. Le massereau de la Garde se singularise, contrairement à beaucoup d'autres caviers, par le fait que sa partie haute, qui porte le pied du moulin, n'est pas en maçonnerie mais en charpente couverte d'ardoises. La hucherolle, cage en bois contenant le renvoi d'angle, l'arbre-moteur et les ailes (Berton) ont été refaits à neuf en 1981.

English translation

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The masonry does not appear to predate the 17th century. Its predecessor, a mill probably of cavier type like itself, was feudally dependent on the seigneurial domain of la Perrière, and its miller owed, in 1584, a rent of 30 livres tournois to the Augustinian religious of Angers. The mass of the present mill, cylindrical base containing the cellar where the millstones are located, rises to approximately 4 m in height and shoulders the massereau tower, all built in rubble stone of schist. The massereau of la Garde is distinguished, contrary to many other caviers, by the fact that its upper part, which bears the foot of the mill, is not in masonry but in timber framing covered with slates. The hucherolle, wooden cage containing the bevel gearing, the drive shaft and the sails (Berton) were completely remade in 1981.

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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