Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien pigeonnier du château
Assier, Lot, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- L'ancien pigeonnier en totalité (cad. B 7) : inscription par arrêté du 21 novembre 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/11/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pigeonnier
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1537
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Assier
- Département
- Lot
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.67875, 1.88128
- Mérimée reference
- PA46000037
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1637 map "Aquitania" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ancien colombier, daté de 1537, se présente comme une tour circulaire abritant 2500 pots à pigeons en terre cuite vernissée, ainsi que son dispositif d'échelle de visite tournante. La toiture à lanterne pourrait être d'origine.
English translation
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History
The old dovecote, dated 1537, presents itself as a circular tower housing 2500 glazed terracotta pigeon pots, as well as its rotating visit ladder device. The lantern roof could be original.
Nearby in the register
- "Ancien logis du 16e siècle dit "grange de Bargues""manoirunder 1 mi
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmendolmenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.