Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de la Clarté
Baud, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de la Clarté (cad. AH 251) : inscription par arrêté du 12 mai 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/05/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue des Fontaines
- Commune
- Baud
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.87612, -3.01540
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091020
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 — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
Fontaine constituée d'une piscine, petite niche à coquille dans une arcade, celle-ci encadrée d'une archivolte avec fleuron, le tout surmonté d'un pignon avec gâble et crochet en feuilles de fougères. Le lavoir a été couvert par un auvent.
English translation
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History
Fountain consisting of a pool, small niche with shell in an arcade, the latter framed by an archivolt with fleuron, all surmounted by a gable with gable and fern-leaf crocket. The wash house has been covered by a canopy.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle de la Clartéchapelleunder 1 mi
- Statue dite Vénus de Quinipilymonumentunder 1 mi
- Croix de Kermarechcroix de cheminunder 1 mi
- Croix de Ténuelcroix monumentale1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.