Historical buildings market Tournai

The middle of these three buildings is the former bailiff's house was rebuilt in 1612 and renovated in the interwar period. The Bailiwick of Tournai and Tournai was founded on June 20, 1383 by order of the King of France, Charles VI.

The Renaissance-style limestone facade has a gable with scrolls and a curved pediment, is five stories high and is bounded by three bays with six openings on the first floor and two on the upper floors, separated by superimposed flat pilasters. Until the eighteenth century, the cellars of the building and the building to its left were used as a prison.

To its right is a four-storey residential and commercial building, rebuilt between the two world wars, with a scroll facade inspired by the traditional style of the first third of the 17th century, with stone mullions with border or transom frames between strips under brick and stone relief arches.

To its left: Café du Carillon . On the site of the second Bailliage house, once similar to the previous one, and above the Réduit des Sions passage, the Café du Carillon is a former café-brasserie built in 1939 by architect Henry Lacoste for the Brasserie Carbonnelles. The building is of high architectural quality , with a facade that contains many elements inspired by medieval architecture - crenellated gable, stained glass windows, "old-fashioned" carved stone cladding, Gothic moldings on the balcony and the arcade overlooking the Rue Réduit des Sions - but in a modern syntax. The rear facade , isolated from the square and the urban context, has a much freer composition: brick walls with rounded corners, sloping window sills and beveled lintels to facilitate light, and the remarkable bronzed copper door with expressionist masks designed by the French sculptor Nathan Imenit

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