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Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-d'Ascq dans le Nord

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine rural
Pigeonier
Nord

Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-d'Ascq

    15 Rue Jean-Jaurès
    59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Pigeonnier du château du Sart à Villeneuve-dAscq
Crédit photo : Pierre André Leclercq (1945–) Autres noms PIERRE A - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1300
1400
1700
1800
1900
2000
XIIIe siècle
First records of the mansion
1740
Construction of the castle
1761
Construction of the pigeon house
1910
Creation of Sart Golf
1914-1918
Destruction of the library
6 décembre 1988
Historical monument classification
2007
Restoration of the pigeon tree
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Pigeonnier, in the park of the castle of Sart (cad. LD 13): inscription by order of 6 December 1988

Key figures

Famille de Fourmestraux - Owners of the castle Sponsors of the castle in 1740
Gaston Le Blanc - Buyer of the domain Founded Sart Golf in 1910
Famille Van der Cruisse de Waziers - Library owners Collection destroyed in 1914-1918
Diderot et d’Alembert - Authors of the Encyclopedia Architectural model of the pigeon tree

Origin and history

The dovecote of the Château du Sart, located in the Sart-Babylone district in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, dates from 1761. It was built according to the recommendations of Diderot and d'Alembert in their Encyclopedia, thus illustrating the architectural and agricultural techniques of the eighteenth century. With its 1109 bolts (pigeon nests), it bears witness to the symbolic and economic importance of pigeons in the seigneurial areas of the Ancien Régime.

The dovecote is part of a larger ensemble, the castle of Sart, whose origins date back to the thirteenth century with a mansion mentioned in acts of the Abbey of Loos. The present castle, built in 1740 by the Fourmestrals family, was rarely inhabited. At the beginning of the 20th century, the estate was transformed: the park became a golf course in 1910, and the castle housed a clubhouse. During World War I, the Van der Cruisse library in Waziers, housed in the castle, was destroyed by the Germans.

Filed with the additional inventory of historical monuments since 6 December 1988, the pigeon house benefited from a restoration in 2007. Its functional architecture and state of conservation make it a remarkable heritage, linked to the rural and aristocratic history of the Hauts-de-France. Today, it stands in the golf park, recalling the agricultural and seigneurial past of the site.

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