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Fontaine Saint-Maur

Calanhel, Côtes-d'Armor, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Fontaine Saint-Maur : classement par arrêté du 20 avril 1927
Protection dates
1927/04/20 : classé MH
Type
fontaine
Main period of construction
18e siècle
Dates
1717
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Commune
Calanhel
Département
Côtes-d'Armor
Region
Bretagne
Country
France
Coordinates
48.45457, -3.48227
Mérimée reference
PA00089046

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1706 map "La Bretagne" (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Fontaine en granit dont les amortissements sculptés des rampants de pignons témoignent d'un mélange de tradition médiévale et du caractère de la sculpture ornementale du 18e siècle. Au fond de l'édicule est représentée une tête à perruque formant cul-de-lampe. Les extrémités inférieures des rampants du toit sont terminées par des têtes de chien ou de loup. Au sommet des deux pignons se trouvent les mêmes têtes à perruque adossées. La source provient d'un bassin rectangulaire sous l'édicule. Une rigole conduit l'eau dans un second bassin circulaire. Une autre rigole, dans l'axe de la première, évacue l'eau au travers du mur.

English translation

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Granite fountain whose sculptured finials of the gable slopes bear witness to a mixture of medieval tradition and the character of ornamental sculpture of the 18th century. At the back of the shrine is represented a head wearing a peruke forming a corbel. The lower extremities of the roof slopes are terminated by heads of dog or wolf. At the top of the two gables are found the same heads wearing a peruke set back-to-back. The water source comes from a rectangular basin beneath the shrine. A channel leads the water into a second circular basin. Another channel, in the axis of the first, evacuates the water through the wall.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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