ClasséEngineering work · protected 1963Trois bornes milliaires, dites Colonnes de César ou Peyrous PlantadousPhoto: Jclpaca · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Hôtel de ville · Photo: Véronique PAGNIER · CC BY-SA 3.052historic monuments
History of Beaucaire · Monuments historiques
A secteur sauvegardé since 1986, and 52 historic monuments
The Culture ministry lists 52 historic monuments in Beaucaire: 12 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 40 inscrit (the second level). That’s 33 for every 10,000 residents, more per resident than 98% of compared French towns; the median compared French town has 2.5. The oldest date from Antiquity. We have photos of 45 of them.
Monuments historiques
52
33 per 10,000 residents
median compared town 2.5
median compared town 2.5
Classé
12
the highest protection
Inscrit
40
the second level
Oldest part
Antiquity
of any listed monument
Homes before 1919
16%
median compared town 7.4%
In pictures
Beaucaire in 45 photos
Nearly every classé monument, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Église Notre-Dame-des-PommiersClassé
ChâteauClassé
Site archéologique de Saint-Roman d'Aiguille (également sur commune de Comps)Classé
Croix couverteClassé
Trois bornes milliaires, dites Colonnes de César ou Peyrous PlantadousClassé+40See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.
Protected area
Beaucaire has had a protected historic area since 1986
Sites patrimoniaux remarquables on the Culture ministry’s list, with the plan in force.
| Area | Created as | Plan in force |
|---|---|---|
| SPR76-24 | Secteur sauvegardé January 3, 1986 | PSMV (safeguarding plan) December 31, 2001 |
A site patrimonial remarquable protects a whole area rather than one building: inside it, building work follows the area’s own plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France. A PSMV (plan de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur) is the strictest plan: it covers every building, inside as well as out.
The list gives no boundaries, so the map can’t show the area.
Map
Where Beaucaire’s monuments stand
Every monument with a point on the ministry’s list; the larger, darker dots are classé.
ClasséInscritWithin 400 m of Château
8 of 12classé monuments stand within 400 m of Château, with 43 of the town’s 52 monuments.
Tap a dot to open the monument’s page: its record, photo and the monuments around it.
52 monuments by protection
12 Classé40 Inscrit
Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point.
Classé
12 classé monuments in Beaucaire
Classé is France’s highest protection for a building, held by about a third of the monuments on the list. 2 of the 12 are protected in part only (a façade, a roof, a room). Each card opens the monument’s page.
ClasséArchaeological site · protected 1990Site archéologique de Saint-Roman d'Aiguille (également sur commune de Comps)Part of the building is protectedPhoto: Sreinsch · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséChurch · protected 2005Église Saint-Paul, ancienne église des CordeliersPhoto: Véronique PAGNIER · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséHouse · protected 1999Maison dite Maison gothiquePhoto: Véronique PAGNIER · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
ClasséConvent · protected 2006Immeuble, ancien couvent des CordeliersPart of the building is protectedPhoto: Finoskov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséChurch · protected 1942Église Notre-Dame-des-PommiersPhoto: Olivier · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Classé
ClasséEngineering work · protected 1965Fragment de base de borne milliaire
Chapel · protected 1973Ancienne chapelle Saint-Pierre
Inscrit
40 inscrit monuments in Beaucaire
Inscrit is the second level of protection: the building is worth keeping, and any work on it must be declared.
All 40, A to Z
Chapelle Saint-JosephChapelle Saint-Pierre-des-RivesHôtel de LinageHôtel, rue de l'Hôtel-de-VilleImmeuble, 10 rue MirabeauImmeuble, 12 rue NationaleImmeuble, 21 rue du ChâteauImmeuble, 22 rue des BijoutiersImmeuble, 28 rue BarbèsImmeuble, 32bis rue Eugène-VigneImmeuble, 33 rue Eugène-VigneImmeuble, 4 rue de la RépubliqueImmeuble, 8 rue de la RépubliqueImmeuble, dit hôtel de ClausonnetteImmeuble, place de la RépubliqueImmeuble, place de la RépubliqueImmeuble, place de la RépubliqueImmeuble, rue Victor-HugoMaison des CariatidesMaison, 11 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 11 rue Jean-Jacques-RousseauMaison, 13 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 13 rue Jean-Jacques-RousseauMaison, 15 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 17 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 17 rue E.-JamaisMaison, 18 rue de la RépubliqueMaison, 19 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 31 rue de la RépubliqueMaison, 7 rue des BijoutiersMaison, 73 rue NationaleMaison, 9 rue RoquecourbeMaison, place de l'Hôtel-de-VilleMonument aux morts de la guerre de 1914-1918Musée, 27 rue BarbèsNiche avec statueNiche avec statuePorte de RochecourbeVestiges du cloître, près de l'église Notre-Dame-des-PommiersVia Domitia (également sur communes de Redessan et Jonquières-Saint-Vincent, dans le Gard, et Castelnau-le-Lez, dans l'Hérault)
29 more, named only by their kind
29 more are named in the list only by their kind: 14 houses (maisons), 13 buildings (immeubles), 1 town house (hôtel) and 1 other, most from the 16th century. The 29 with an address are in the list above, by it.
14th c.1
15th c.2
16th c.5
17th c.3
18th c.4
undated14
What’s protected
Most of Beaucaire’s monuments are houses and homes
Each monument under the main domain Mérimée gives it.
Houses & homes35
Religious buildings9
Bridges & engineering3
Public & civic2
Military & fortified1
Tombs & cemeteries1
Houses & homes: 35 of 52 monuments (67%). 9 are religious buildings, 6 of them classé.
Mérimée files each monument under one main domain: a château with its chapel counts once. 1 has no domain on the list.
How old
How old Beaucaire’s monuments are
Each monument once, by the oldest part the list dates.
Prehistory & Antiquity to the 4th c.3
Middle Ages 5th–15th c.11
16th to 18th century Renaissance to Revolution20
19th century 1801–19000
20th century and later since 19010
14 of 34 dated monuments have parts from before 1500. The oldest dated: Fragment de base de borne milliaire (Antiquity). 18 monuments have no date on the list.
When protected
Over half of Beaucaire’s monuments were protected in 1946
Monuments by the year they were first protected.
1946 · 30
1840186018801900192019401960198020002020
First protected, in 1846: Chapelle Saint-Louis. 30 were protected in 1946 alone. 1 has been added since 2011.
Age of homes
16% of homes in Beaucaire were built before 1919
Main homes by when they were finished, beside the median compared French town (the tick).
16%
Before 1919
9.9%
1919–45
21%
1946–70
27%
1971–90
13%
1991–2005
13%
2006 on
BeaucaireMedian compared French town
16% of its main homes were built before 1919; the median compared French town has 7.4%. More of them were finished between 1971 and 1990 than in any other period (27%).
INSEE, census 2023: main homes (résidences principales) only; second homes and empty homes aren’t dated.
Born before 1900
6 people born in Beaucaire before 1900
Their lives on one line.
Jacques Barthélemy Noaille
Anatole de Cabrières
Achille de Rochambeau
Jean-Augustin Germain
Georges Ribot
Pierre Fayet
175017751800182518501875190019251950
AC
Anatole de Cabrières1830–1921 · French cardinal
JB
Jacques Barthélemy Noaille1758–1828 · French politician
AR
Achille de Rochambeau1836–1897 · French historian
JA
Jean-Augustin Germain1839–1928 · French archbishop
GR
Georges Ribot1875–1954 · French politician
PF
Pierre Fayet1887–1977 · French politician
Everyone born in Beaucaire Birthplaces from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia.
Towns its size
Beaucaire has the 2nd most monuments of 41 towns its size
Compared French towns of 15,200 to 16,200 residents, by historic monuments.
Beaucaire52
#2 of 41for monuments per resident (33 per 10,000). Most per resident: Toul, Beaucaire and Fontainebleau.
The median town of these has 4. 6 of the 41 have none.
Neighbors
Historic monuments in the towns around Beaucaire
In brief
Beaucaire in brief
The record in Beaucaire starts with Fragment de base de borne milliaire, which dates from Antiquity. In all there are 52 historic monuments, 12 of them classé, including Hôtel de ville. Its old center has been a secteur sauvegardé since 1986. Per resident, it has more historic monuments than 98% of compared French towns.
Its housing is old: 16% of homes date from before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town. Only one of the 41 towns nearest its size has more historic monuments. Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses and homes.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Monuments historiques. France protects buildings at two levels. Classé, the higher (about a third of the list), means any work needs the State’s permission; inscrit means work must be declared to the State in advance. The Culture ministry’s Mérimée base lists every protected building, and this page counts them.
- Partly protected. Many entries protect part of a building only (its façades and roofs, a staircase, a painted room). Each counts as one monument, like a fully protected one.
- Where a monument is counted. In the commune named on its protection, moved to today’s commune where communes have since merged. A monument listed for several communes counts in each.
- Sites patrimoniaux remarquables. Since 2016 France’s protected historic areas (the former secteurs sauvegardés, ZPPAUP and AVAP) share one name. Inside one, building work follows the area’s plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.
- What isn’t here. Protected objects (furniture, organs, paintings), old buildings with no protection, UNESCO World Heritage listings and labels such as “Plus Beaux Villages de France” aren’t on this list, so this page doesn’t count them.
- No History Grade yet. Everything on this page is described, not graded: France’s History Grade isn’t built yet.
Questions about the history of Beaucaire
How many historic monuments are there in Beaucaire?
The Culture ministry lists 52 historic monuments in Beaucaire: 12 classé and 40 inscrit.
Which monuments in Beaucaire are classé?
12, among them Fragment de base de borne milliaire, Trois bornes milliaires, dites Colonnes de César ou Peyrous Plantadous, Site archéologique de Saint-Roman d'Aiguille (également sur commune de Comps), Croix couverte, Église Saint-Paul, ancienne église des Cordeliers and Maison dite Maison gothique.
How old are the monuments of Beaucaire?
The oldest parts of its listed monuments date from Antiquity.
Is Beaucaire a protected historic area?
Yes: part of Beaucaire has been a site patrimonial remarquable since 1986.
When were monuments in Beaucaire first protected?
The first in 1846, the latest in 2018.
How old are the homes in Beaucaire?
16% of its main homes were built before 1919 (median compared French town: 7.4%).
France has no History Grade yet: this page describes, it doesn’t grade.
Sources: Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée base on POP (immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques), October 2026 · Ministère de la Culture, sites patrimoniaux remarquables, October 2026 · INSEE, census 2023 (main homes by build period) · Wikidata and Wikipedia (people born here) · Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata (photos of the monuments, each with its own credit and license) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.