Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Phare des Héaux-de-Bréhat, situé en Manche, au large de Pleubian
Pleubian, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Le phare en totalité (cad. non cadastré, domaine public maritime) : classement par arrêté du 23 mai 2011
- Protection dates
- 2011/05/23 : classé MH
- Type
- phare
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 19e siècle
- Dates
- 1840
- Architect or builder
- Reynaud Léonce (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Pleubian
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.90844, -3.08630
- Mérimée reference
- PA22000031
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandIGN France — GéoportailNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1756 map "Carte de Cassini (c. 1756)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le phare est construit entre 1835 et 1840 par l'architecte Léonce Reynaud. Il se distingue par l'ampleur de sa conception. Sa silhouette unique résulte de la combinaison entre une base massive et une pure colonne dont la simplicité et la légèreté caractérisent le modèle du phare continental tel qu'il s'imposait déjà à cette période. La partie supérieure de la tour, dynamitée lors de la Seconde guerre mondiale, fut reconstruite à l'identique et le phare, remis en service en 1950. Cette oeuvre élégante, très peu modifiée depuis l'origine, constitue un ouvrage de référence dans l'histoire de la signalisation maritime en France.
English translation
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History
The lighthouse was built between 1835 and 1840 by the architect Léonce Reynaud. It is distinguished by the scale of its conception. Its unique silhouette results from the combination between a massive base and a pure column whose simplicity and lightness characterise the model of the continental lighthouse as it was already becoming established in this period. The upper part of the tower, dynamited during the Second World War, was rebuilt identically and the lighthouse, put back into service in 1950. This elegant work, very little modified since its origin, constitutes a reference structure in the history of maritime signalling in France.