Headlight of Rock-Dover

The Phare of Rock-Dover is the last French headlight built in full-sea, out of very communal limit.

It is on a small small island, to 40 km of the continent, emerging from the dangerous rock plate of Rock-Dover between the islands of Bréhat and Guernesey. It is furthest away from the coasts of all Europe.

A 57 height m metal tower was initially built of 1867 with 1869.Elle had been assembled in Hillock-Chaumont for the World Fair of 1867 and dismounted then, to be gone up like a building set in Rock-Dover.

the headlight was destroyed during the Second world war by the German army.

Its rebuilding, out of granite, as from 1947 lasted nearly seven years. It is now a cylindrical brick and concrete tower on an oval base of 20 meters.

It from now on is automated since 1999.

The headlight of Rock-Dover is not visited.

To see

François Played-Poutrel , guard of headlight and painter, remained twenty and one years in Rock-Dover. Its paintings involve us in the universe of this mythical headlight, from where it is not seen that very seldom the ground…

Oeuvres of F. Played-Poutrel

Internal bonds

List of the headlights of France

External bonds

electronic File of the general inventory - Brittany

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