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The communal washhouse was built thanks to a donation from Xavier Sylvestre, a resident of Chamaret who bequeathed his fortune to the commune.
Description
Located in the heart of the village, it shortened the distance washerwomen had to travel from the old town center to the original washhouse below, and was built by Joannis Rey, an architect from Valence who designed an elegant, classical building. He also worked on the restoration of Chamaret's medieval tower.
The Grande Fontaine de Chamaret, located at Colombier, a hundred meters west of the village, is shown on the 1836 land register with the legend "fontaine couverte" (section A 1, unnumbered plot). Inside the small building with its pavilion roof (now cemented), a stone embedded in the wall is engraved with an inscription, bearing the names of J.A. Roux and B.A. Besset, consuls of the time. The date 1781 tops the inscription. This date, the earliest inscribed on a water aedicule in the canton, commemorates the construction of a covered building housing both a public fountain and washhouse, perhaps on the site of an earlier fountain.
Spoken languages
- French
Themes
- Historic patrimony
- Wash house