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Origin and history

The building located 16 rue du Musée in Angers is a former 16th century presbytery, the only vestige of the Romanesque church Saint-Michel-la-Palud, destroyed in the 19th century. This house, built around the middle of the 16th century, has a composite structure: two separate building bodies, one in shale, the other combining shale and tuft, reflecting successive phases of construction or redesign. The left part, entirely shale, seems anterior, while modifications (openings, wooden staircase) date from the 18th century, as evidenced by the date of 1764 engraved on a skylight.

Originally, this building served as a cure for the parish of Saint-Michel-la-Palud, dependent on Saint-Aubin Abbey. After the Revolution, it became a national good before being privatized. In the 19th century, major changes took place: reconstruction of the staircase in an existing wood-pan cage, ravaging of the posterior façade, and addition of an unidentified coat of arms in a Louis XV-style cartridge. The street façade, restored in the 1960s, was wrongly corrected in 1766 instead of 1764.

The ensemble, inscribed in the historical monuments in 1947 for its facade and roof, preserves remarkable elements such as a 16th century wooden poles body and a sculpted stone. Its elongated plan and its typical materials (schiste, tuffeau) illustrate the civil architecture of the Renaissance, while its history reflects the religious and political upheavals of the region, from the Old Regime to the contemporary period.

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