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Deux moulins-caviers

Chouzé-sur-Loire, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Deux moulins-caviers (cad. AP 669, 671) : inscription par arrêté du 9 février 1993
Protection dates
1993/02/09 : inscrit MH
Type
moulin
Main period of construction
4e quart 17e siècle, 3e quart 19e siècle
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
6 rue des Moulins
Lieu-dit
les Moulins
Commune
Chouzé-sur-Loire
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.23835, 0.12092
Mérimée reference
PA00125365

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "The Dvkedome of Turone. Touraine. Tvronensis Ducatus" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Les deux moulins caviers sont parmi les derniers vestiges des six caviers, toujours groupés deux par deux. Ces deux moulins remontent à la fin du 17e siècle pour le plus ancien, aux années 1860 pour le plus récent. Le plus ancien est constitué d'une masse polygonale épaulée de contreforts et de trois salles voûtées disposées côte à côte. La cave centrale mène à la salle des meules. Le plus récent est constitué d'une masse carrée épaulant un cône sommé des vestiges de sa hucherolle. Les trois caves voûtées parallèles sont contrebutées d'une longue cave transversale où le meunier conservait son vin en fûts.

English translation

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The two caveau mills are among the last remains of the six caveaux, always grouped two by two. These two mills date from the late 17th century for the older, to the 1860s for the more recent. The older one consists of a polygonal mass buttressed by counterforces and three barrel-vaulted rooms arranged side by side. The central vault leads to the millstone room. The more recent one consists of a square mass buttressing a cone surmounted by the remains of its hucherolle. The three parallel barrel-vaulted caves are counterbuttressed by a long transverse cave where the miller kept his wine in barrels.

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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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