Barville Tower Guided Tour

Name: Barville Tower Guided Tour
Start: 2023-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Tour de Barville

The Tower of Barville, chapel surmounted by a dovecote, is what remains of the manor of "céans", residence of Gilles de Gouberville....

Sunday 17 September 2023, 10:00, 14:00Passed

Kevin Bazot et Comité Gouberville

The Tower of Barville, chapel surmounted by a dovecote, is what remains of the manor of "céans", residence of Gilles de Gouberville.

The Comité Gilles de Gouberville and the current owners will welcome you to recall Gilles de Gouberville who kept his daily diary in the 16th century, in times troubled by the wars of Religion.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Tour de Barville

198 rue du Bourg, 50110 Le Mesnil-au-Val

Manche
Normandie

Unique(Only) vestige of the manor of Giles de Gouberville, in Mesnil-au-Val, said tower of Barville shelters a chapel in ground floor(floors), topped with a dovecote on the first floor. Of plan squared on the base(basis), octagonal and circular in crowning, the building is built in stones of sandstone; the door frames of access to the chapel and its four bays(berries), which one in flamboyant network, are limestone; the roofing in schist. The dovecote possesses only a single small window of flight. The Restoration in 1990\.