Demonstration: Meeting experienced European philatelists from the Cercle International de Rencontres Philatéliques

Name: Demonstration: Meeting experienced European philatelists from the Cercle International de Rencontres Philatéliques
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Grange aux dîmes

Exhibition of the CIRP , Great hall of the Barn to the Tithes

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00Passed

@Delcampe blog

Twenty or so enthusiasts from France and European countries will be pleased and humbled to be in front of one of their collections throughout the day of Saturday to explain and recount this philatelic and postal heritage on very varied subjects. Any public, connoisseurs or neophytes.

About the location

Grange aux dîmes

Place Lemarignier, 14150 Ouistreham

Calvados
Normandie

In the heart of its ancient village which has preserved a remarkable medieval heritage, the tithes barn is part of a beautiful set of rural buildings of monastic origin, recently restored. Until the Revolution, Ouistreham was an ecclesiastical, legal and fiscal dependency of the abbey to the Ladies of Caen whose abbess received the tithe (tax in kind representing about the tenth of the harvests, peaches and herds) stored in the barn provided for this purpose. This barn, which is mentioned for the first time in 1257, was abandoned during the so-called Hundred Years War period and probably rebuilt in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries using original elements, to resume its function. It was once part of the farm of the Abbey or Barony, owned by the Abbess patroness of Ouistreham. Tithe Barn