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Roches-Douvres lighthouse station identity

The continuing Roches-Douvres navigational station identity, separated from the destroyed 1869 metal tower and the granite-and-concrete replacement lit in 1954.

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Heritage Journey

Roches-Douvres: The Granite Ship

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Identity role

Direct relationships

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  • Current host
  • Has part
    Roches-Douvres 1869 metal lighthouse1869 – 1944reviewed

    The prefabricated metal tower embodied the Roches-Douvres station from 1869 until its wartime destruction.

  • Has part
    Roches-Douvres 1954 granite lighthouse1954reviewed

    The present granite-and-concrete lighthouse carries the continuing Roches-Douvres station identity.

  • Historically part of
    Roches-Douvres1869reviewed

    The station lineage carries the reviewed Roches-Douvres lighthouse identity across destruction and reconstruction.

  • Located at
    Roches-Douvres plateau1869reviewed

    The Roches-Douvres station identity remains anchored to the same offshore plateau across two materially different towers.

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"Roches-Douvres lighthouse station identity" · LUX-ASSET-000658 · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000658/

Citation

LUX Light Archive, Heritage asset: "Roches-Douvres lighthouse station identity", LUX-ASSET-000658, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-assets/LUX-ASSET-000658/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.