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Halle

Mortemart, Haute-Vienne, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
La halle en totalité (cad. AA 178) : inscription par arrêté du 28 avril 2009
Protection dates
2009/04/28 : inscrit MH
Type
marché couvert
Main period of construction
1ère moitié 18e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place Royale
Commune
Mortemart
Département
Haute-Vienne
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.04140, 0.95632
Mérimée reference
PA87000032

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

La construction de la halle pourrait remonter à l'instauration des foires et marchés au début du 18e siècle par Louis II de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart. De plan rectangulaire, ouverte, elle se compose de douze poteaux de chêne, de section carrée, répartis sur les longs côtés, délimitant ainsi une allée unique de cinq travées couverte d'un toit à croupes. A l'ouest, les poteaux reposent sur un muret de moellons en granit. A l'origine, ils reposaient sans doute sur des bases monolithes en granit. La charpente, formée de quatre fermes, est portée par des poteaux, par l'intermédiaire de sablières.

English translation

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The construction of the hall could date back to the establishment of fairs and markets in the early 18th century by Louis II de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart. Of rectangular plan, open, it is composed of twelve oak posts, of square section, distributed on the long sides, thus delimiting a single aisle of five bays covered with a hipped roof. To the west, the posts rest on a wall of rubble stone in granite. Originally, they probably rested on monolithic granite bases. The roof structure, formed of four roof trusses, is carried by posts, by way of sill-beams.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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