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Anciens fours à chaux

Vendenesse-lès-Charolles, Saône-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Anciens fours à chaux (cad. I 385) : classement par arrêté du 16 juin 1998
Protection dates
1998/06/16 : classé MH
Type
four à chaux
Main period of construction
2e moitié 19e siècle
Dates
1870
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Vendenesse-lès-Charolles
Département
Saône-et-Loire
Region
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Country
France
Coordinates
46.43212, 4.31339
Mérimée reference
PA00125334

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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1838 map "Lyon" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Fours construits à la fin du 19e siècle par la Compagnie des Dombes et des Chemins de Fer du Sud-Est (de 1870 à 1880). Leur exploitation a cessé vers 1950. Ce sont trois fours monumentaux installés sur l'ancien quai ; ils sont composés de tours cylindriques de 6, 50 mètres de diamètre à la base, en pierres appareillées surmontées de cheminées coniques en briques de six à sept mètres de haut. Le monte-charge est conservé.

English translation

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Furnaces built at the end of the 19th century by the Compagnie des Dombes et des Chemins de Fer du Sud-Est (from 1870 to 1880). Their operation ceased around 1950. These are three monumental furnaces installed on the former quay; they are composed of cylindrical towers 6.50 metres in diameter at the base, in dressed stone topped with conical brick chimneys six to seven metres high. The hoist is preserved.

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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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