Sentiers du Patrimoine ®
Ableiges
La Mairie-école
De la mairie, monter par la rue Gilles de Maupéou jusqu’à l’église puis jusqu’à la ferme-château.
<br></p></div><div class='texte'><p align=center>Prochain point :Ancien château et ferme seigneuriale, Coordonnées GPS : 49.088354 ; 1.981561 </p></div> <section id="english"></section> <div class='texte'> <h1 align=right><strong>The Town Hall–School<br>An important municipal building</strong></h1> <h1><strong>From previous buildings…</strong></h1> <p align=left> During the 19th century, several successive buildings served as both town hall and school in Ableiges. At the beginning of the century, a house at the corner of today’s Rue Duvivier hosted a classroom. The school was later established in 1837 in a building located right next to the church, opening onto what is now Rue de la Prairie. It was at that time that the town hall, previously housed in other premises, was combined with the school in the same building, forming the village’s first town hall–school. The building was renovated in 1855. However, in 1899, the village schoolteacher wrote in his monograph that the school’s facilities were “very poor.” The cramped space may have been one of the reasons for creating a new town hall. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <h1 align=right>… to the current town hall–school</h1> <p align=right> The present town hall–school was built in 1906, as indicated by the date engraved on its pediment. Facing a square planted with lime trees, the town hall building rises on two floors plus an attic level, and is attached to the single-story school building. The whole complex follows the model of town hall–schools of the French Third Republic, which spread across France from the end of the 19th century. These dressed-stone buildings, designed to glorify the state authority, feature recurring elements. For example, the small bell tower on the roof of the Ableiges town hall is a common decorative feature. The building also has some architectural specificities, probably linked to its later construction, in particular its central dormer with a round window called ‘oculus.’ Still in use today, the town hall remains a central landmark of the village</p> </div> <div class='logos' align='center'><img src="../IMAGES/LOGOS/coderando_95_2016.jpg" alt="" width="" height="135"align="center" /><img src="../IMAGES/LOGOS/parc_light.jpg" alt="" height="135" align="center" /></div><br /><div><hr><font size=0><p align=right><i> <a href="http://www.expressionomade.fr"/>by Expression Nomade</a></i></p></font></div></body></html>
