Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine Saint-Cornély
Carnac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine Saint-Cornély : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1661
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Carnac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.58349, -3.08130
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091105
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1708 map "Le Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine à arcade avec ordre dorique, surmontée d'une sorte d'obélisque. Elle se situe en contrebas de la place, dans un espace carré dont l'accès s'effectue par quelques marches disposées au centre des quatre côtés.
English translation
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History
Fountain with arcade with Doric order, surmounted by a kind of obelisk. It is situated below the square, in a square space access to which is effected by several steps disposed at the centre of the four sides.
Nearby in the register
- Menhir du bourg de Carnacmenhirunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Cornélyégliseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen de Cruz-Menquendolmenunder 1 mi
- Croixcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.