Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Phare du Cap Lévi
Fermanville, Manche, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le phare en totalité (cad. D 785, lieudit le Phare) : inscription par arrêté du 11 mai 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/05/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- phare
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 19e siècle, 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1858, 1947
- Architect or builder
- Morice de la Rüe Charles-Félix (ingénieur), Chauliat (architecte), Levavasseur (architecte), de Serry (ingénieur), Baude (entrepreneur), Clot (entrepreneur), Levêque (entrepreneur)
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Fermanville
- Département
- Manche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.69587, -1.47320
- Mérimée reference
- PA50000064
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandNational Library of Scotland
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1838 map "Cherbourg" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A la demande des navigateurs, un phare signalant les écueils de la pointe du Cap Lévi fut allumé en 1858 mais l'ouvrage et son environnement, construits sur les plans de l'ingénieur de Serry, furent totalement détruits par explosion le 28 juin 1944. Selon le plan de reconstruction de la signalisation maritime, l'érection d'une nouvelle tour fut alors mise à l'étude et le dessin en fut confié aux architectes Chauliat et Levavasseur. Ces derniers imaginèrent une tour quadrangulaire à faces incurvées, en granite rose. Le fût est surmonté d'une rotonde circulaire abritant la chambre de veille, inédite sur le littoral français. Reconstruit en 1947, le phare mesure 36 mètres de haut.
English translation
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History
At the request of navigators, a lighthouse signalling the reefs at the point of Cap Lévi was lit in 1858 but the structure and its surroundings, built according to the plans of engineer de Serry, were totally destroyed by explosion on 28 June 1944. According to the plan for the reconstruction of maritime signalling, the erection of a new tower was then studied and the design was entrusted to architects Chauliat and Levavasseur. The latter conceived a quadrangular tower with curved faces, in pink granite. The shaft is surmounted by a circular rotunda housing the watch room, unprecedented on the French coastline. Rebuilt in 1947, the lighthouse measures 36 metres in height.
Nearby in the register
- Stèle de Marie Ravenelmonument1 mi
- Batterie d’artillerie côtière Hambourgouvrage fortifié2 mi
- Manoir d'Inthévillemanoir2 mi
- Manoirmanoir3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.