La grange seigneuriale de « l’hébergement » de Flux à Lailly-en-Val (Loiret) au XIVe siècle

Abstract

The seigniorial barn of Flux at Lailly-en-Val (Loiret) was built on the main bed of the river Loire which, at the time, was liable to inundation. The building has been modified over the centuries but nonetheless conserves its original footprint and its original wooden trusses and purlins. These are supported by posts the timber of which, according to dendrochronological analysis, was cut in about 1320. In archival consents dating from the 14th century, a third of a century after the construction, it is possible to see how the barn occupied a peripheral situation in the ‘hébergement’, the lodging of Flux. Its location near Beaugency allowed for parts of the harvest to be rapidly stored in the barn prior to sale.

Keywords

• barn
• manorial barn
• wooden trusses and purlins on posts
• dendrochronology
• 14th century
• bed of the Loire