LES HAMEAUX DE MENDE: BAHOURS, CHABRIT, CHABANNES, CHANTERUEJOLS, LE MAS

The five villages that occupy the northwest of the town have an architectural heritage that deserves to be mentioned. Bahours, Chabrits, Chanteruejols, Le Mas and Chabannes , indeed bring together more or less important residences, the oldest of which date from the second half of the 15th century. Such is the case of Bahours , a simple linear hamlet made up of three farms with main buildings and outbuildings and a 17th century fortified house . Chabrits, Chanteruéjols and Le Mas develop further into narrow streets along which the habitat is aligned with courtyards and gardens enclosed by stone walls. In Chabannes, which was the subject of suburban extensions in the 20th century, the center consists of two large residences from the second half of the 15th century – beginning of the 16th century. There are also common buildings there: bread oven, wayside cross, ferradou, fountain-washhouse… The dwellings adopt rectangular plans and develop on a floor reserved for housing. The ground floor is intended for storage spaces or reserved for farm animals. Most often forming with the house an L-shaped plan on the courtyard, the large barn is built of limestone and shale rubble. The covers are often two-sided initially in shale slate, more rarely in hull. At the Mas and at Chanteruejols the ridges are embellished with schist finials pierced with cross motifs. A single independent dovecote is listed, it is in Chabannes. This building of rectangular plan is associated with the manor belonging to the 15th – 16th centuries to the chapter of Mende. A few stone wayside crosses are preserved in Chabannes and Chanteruéjols. Bahours has 2 bread ovens, Chabrit has one. click to find other crosses listed in the Pays d'art et d'histoire . The washhouses - fountains, built between 1879 (Chabrits) and 1890 (Le Mas and Chanteruéjols), are made on the same model of an elongated rectangular plan. The fountain in a central position feeds the drinking troughs from which the water drains into the basins intended for washing.

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