Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine
Saint-Gilles-Pligeaux, Côtes-d'Armor, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine : classement par arrêté du 15 mai 1953
- Protection dates
- 1953/05/15 : classé MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Gilles-Pligeaux
- Département
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.37923, -3.09558
- Mérimée reference
- PA00089623
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1786 map "Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ensemble complet et intéressant d'une fontaine bretonne. L'ouvrage présente deux bassins alimentés par la même source. L'enceinte en pierre de taille est garnie, à l'intérieur, d'une saillie servant de siège continu aux pèlerins. Deux escaliers conduisent à cette enceinte. Deux pignons en pyramide sont creusés de niches destinées à recevoir les statues de Saint-Gilles, de Saint-Loup et de Saint-Laurent. Jusqu'à la Révolution, les seigneurs y tenaient quatre fois par an les plaids généraux ou assises solennelles.
English translation
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History
Complete and interesting ensemble of a Breton fountain. The structure presents two basins fed by the same source. The ashlar enclosure is furnished, on the interior, with a projecting edge serving as a continuous seat for pilgrims. Two staircases lead to this enclosure. Two pyramid-shaped gables are hollowed out with niches intended to receive the statues of Saint-Gilles, of Saint-Loup and of Saint-Laurent. Until the Revolution, the lords held there four times a year the general plaids or solemn assizes.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Gilleségliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle seigneuriale Saint-Laurentchapelleunder 1 mi
- Tumulus de Colleredotumulus1 mi
- Menhir de Kergornecmenhir1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.