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Bastide de Pellegrue

Pellegrue

Dimensions
The central square, the heart of the bastide, is occupied by a market hall of cast iron, stone and glass of 1913 succeeding a wooden hall; the covered arcades of the first timber-framed houses have given way to stone façades. Public wells punctuate the square, among them the main well restored in 1850. The church of Saint-André, of the 12th century, keeps a Romanesque façade and a barrel-vaulted apse beneath a neo-Byzantine bell-tower of the 19th century. Below, the washhouse of Le Touran dates from the 17th century.
Period
Castral village attested in 1242; bastide 1272-1274, customs 1283; siege in 1345; Protestant temple 1559-1685; bell-tower collapsed in 1860 and rebuilt in 1896; metal market hall 1913.
What stands there
Church of Saint-André and château du Puch de Gensac inscribed as monuments historiques; the market hall of 1913 is also protected according to the Fédération des Bastides d'Aquitaine. Ten wells are recorded on the cadastral survey. The commune is a member of the Fédération des Bastides d'Aquitaine and of the Union des villes bastides de Gironde; about 903 inhabitants according to the Fédération.

On a hill of the Entre-deux-Mers, halfway between Sainte-Foy-la-Grande and Monségur, Pellegrue is an English bastide grafted onto an older castral village: a parish centre existed there from 1082 and a castle is attested in 1242. In 1272 the lord Raymond de Pellegrue ceded to the King of England Henry III a third of the justice of the place; his son Edward I carried out the foundation in 1274 by a charter of paréage and granted the customs in 1283. From 1289 a bailiff of the duke sat there. The great public square, a novelty of the plan, received timber-framed houses under covered arcades, replaced by stone buildings, then in 1913 by a market hall of cast iron and glass in the manner of Baltard. The church of Saint-André, Romanesque, rests on Gallo-Roman and Merovingian remains. The name of the place, the hill of the cranes, preserves a legend of rescuing birds.

Further reading

Getting there : Village and square freely accessible. Weekly market on Wednesday morning, held since the 19th century according to the town hall and described as ancient by the Union des villes bastides de Gironde.

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Bastide de Pellegrue
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