Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pigeonnier de Racanière
Caylus, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pigeonnier (cad. M 658) : inscription par arrêté du 21 décembre 2009
- Protection dates
- 2009/12/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pigeonnier
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Caylus
- Département
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.23634, 1.69443
- Mérimée reference
- PA82000025
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1628 map "Potamographie de Garone et des Fleuves qui Rendent Dedans." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce pigeonnier, datable des environs de 1600, est un bel exemple de pigeonnier de type tarnais avec colonnes en pierre supportant une caisse à pans de bois et toit en pavillon surmonté d'un lanternon.
English translation
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History
This dovecote, datable to around 1600, is a fine example of dovecote of the Tarn type with stone columns supporting a timber-framed box and pavilion roof surmounted by a lantern.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.