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Cordouan lighthouse station fabric
The surviving Cordouan monument and active lighthouse fabric, treated as the root identity for architectural and technical layering.
Source Evidence
Heritage Journey
Cordouan: Continuity Through Transformation
What remains when architecture and technology change around one enduring beacon?
Identity role
- Root identityCordouan: Continuity Through Transformation
Cordouan preserves one lighthouse identity through architectural layering, optical experimentation, changing power and expanding heritage stewardship.
Direct relationships
Reviewed links from this object to a station, place, manufacturer, collection, or another heritage identity.
- Current hostCordouan rocky plateaureviewed
- Historically part ofCordouan Lighthouse1611reviewed
The station fabric carries Cordouan's lighthouse identity across later modifications.
- Located atCordouan rocky plateau1611reviewed
Cordouan's surviving station fabric remains on the same rocky plateau.
- ModifiedCordouan Lighthouse1788 – 1790reviewed
From 1788 to 1790, Joseph Teulère's campaign raised and remodelled Cordouan's station fabric while retaining the lower monument and the continuing lighthouse identity.
Connections and discovery
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Data and downloads
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Story Projects
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- The Light Is Not the Lighthouselight_group
Rights & Attribution
Content License
Original editorial content on this page: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. See Rights & Reuse.
Media Rights
No published media with documented rights on this record.
Attribution
"Cordouan lighthouse station fabric" · LUX-ASSET-000638 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000638/
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Cordouan lighthouse station fabric", LUX-ASSET-000638, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000638/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.