House, rue de Marvis, 71

This building is part of a remarkable architectural ensemble of Tournai (nos. 29-33). Built in 1678, after the capture of the city by Louis XIV, these very homogeneous houses are characterized by the use of stone, for architectural elements, and brick. The three buildings belonged to the Hospices Civils (Marvis and Saint-Brice foundations).
Like its neighbors with whom it forms a very similar whole, this house has three bays of two levels rising on a high base. The ground floor is pierced by a wide and low door with molded pedestals and key as well as bays with jambs decorated with a drop, elements that are repeated upstairs. These openings, whose crossings have been restored, as well as the mullion of the transom overlooking the door, are surmounted by continuous discharge arches, forming jointed curved pediments. The whole is topped by a coyau frame roof, supported by a cornice with wooden modillions. It has two hipped dormers surrounded by double fins decorated with scrolls. The rear façade is characterized by a Louis XIV style ground floor and a Tournaisian type floor.
Classified as a monument on September 15, 1936

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