PATRIMOINE - Caveau de Pierre Loth
Historic site and monument
in Saint-maixant
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This impressive vault is carved from local granite and richly decorated. The symbols of the Compagnons, animal, plant and geometric decorations, the scales, the Phrygian bonnet, a sword and a ciborium are all represented in a conventional, classical or more original manner. It is topped by a large stone ball, which, it is said, used to rotate.
Rectangular in plan, it is composed of four superimposed elements:
- a base on two levels, with planting cavities in the last level;
- a...This impressive vault is carved from local granite and richly decorated. The symbols of the Compagnons, animal, plant and geometric decorations, the scales, the Phrygian bonnet, a sword and a ciborium are all represented in a conventional, classical or more original manner. It is topped by a large stone ball, which, it is said, used to rotate.
Rectangular in plan, it is composed of four superimposed elements:
- a base on two levels, with planting cavities in the last level;
- a truncated-pyramid block decorated with sacred or symbolic objects in a cartouche on the main side facing the driveway.
- an ensemble adorned with various stylized plant and geometric motifs, structured laterally by two piers with inner corbels and centrally by two paired columns with volute capitals
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Accepted customers
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Openings
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Openings
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- All year 2024
- All year 2025