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Entrepôt aux sels

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Somme, France

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Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Entrepôt aux sels (cad. AI 293, 294) : classement par arrêté du 1er juillet 1991
Protection dates
1991/07/01 : classé MH
Type
grenier à sel
Main period of construction
2e quart 18e siècle
Dates
1733
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
Département
Somme
Region
Hauts-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
50.18242, 1.64324
Mérimée reference
PA00116277

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1710 map "19. Les Embouchure de la Somme et de la Bresle Riviere ou est St. Valeri, Eu et Dieppe. 1710." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Vaste entrepôt construit en 1733-1734 sur le port de Saint-Valéry, et édifié en brique et pierre sur soubassement de grès. Le commanditaire en était François Lebaud. La toiture primitive qui recouvrait les trois travées de l'entrepôt n'existe plus depuis 1935. Il s'agit là du seul exemple subsistant en France d'entrepôt aux sels de cette ampleur, et qui était destiné à emmagasiner les sels devant approvisionner les greniers des provinces de Picardie, Champagne et Bourgogne.

English translation

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Vast warehouse built in 1733-1734 on the port of Saint-Valéry, and erected in brick and stone on a gritstone base. The person commissioning it was François Lebaud. The primitive roof which covered the three bays of the warehouse no longer exists since 1935. This is the only surviving example in France of a salt warehouse of this scale, which was intended to store the salts destined to supply the granaries of the provinces of Picardy, Champagne and Burgundy.

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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