Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Grange pyramidale de la Fontaine Bénat
Châtillon-sur-Loire, Loiret, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La grange pyramidale remontée au lieudit la Fontaine Bénat, en totalité (cad. YN 110, 114, cf plan annexé à l'arrêté) : inscription par arrêté du 6 juillet 2012
- Protection dates
- 2012/07/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- grange
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Châtillon-sur-Loire
- Département
- Loiret
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.58203, 2.73156
- Mérimée reference
- PA45000039
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1759 map "9 Gien." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Cette grange-étable présente un type particulier de charpente, dénommée charpente pyramidale, essentiellement présent au nord-est du Cher et aux confins du Loiret. Une dizaine de grange-étable de ce type a été répertoriée autour de Beaulieu-sur-Loire. Ces charpentes pyramidales reposent sur des poteaux assemblés deux à deux en portiques et se caractérisent par leur important volume de toiture, leurs murs en pans de bois et leur porche en retrait. Leur distribution intérieure en vaisseaux parallèles regroupe diverses fonctions agricoles.
English translation
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History
This barn-stable presents a particular type of roof structure, called pyramidal roof structure, essentially present in the north-east of the Cher and on the borders of the Loiret. About ten barn-stables of this type have been recorded around Beaulieu-sur-Loire. These pyramidal roof structures rest on posts assembled two by two in porticoes and are characterized by their considerable roof volume, their timber-framing walls and their recessed porch. Their interior distribution into parallel vessels groups together various agricultural functions.
Nearby in the register
- Maison à pans de boismaison1 mi
- Temple protestant (anciens grands greniers)temple1 mi
- Château de Courcelles-le-Roychâteau2 mi
- Château d'Assaychâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.