Niche of joint ownership
A niche of joint ownership is small a niche (cavity) in the thickness of a wall giving on a close property. Very often covered by 2 bricks laid out in Bâtière, it sheltered a small statue. This installation, practiced with breast height in masonry, was traditional in many areas of France and had as a function to announce that the wall is joint and that the property of this face of the wall stops at the bottom of the niche.
Nowadays, good number of the statues disappeared from their shelters, and the cavities remain empty or were transformed into small racks. Sometimes also, the niches were filled during work of rejointing. Their existence remains locatable then, except when vegetation (Virginia creeper, Lierre) recovers the wall or that a Enduit was applied to its surface.
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