Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de Burgo
Grand-Champ, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de Burgo (cad. F 340) : classement par arrêté du 21 février 1942
- Protection dates
- 1942/02/21 : classé MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Burgo
- Commune
- Grand-Champ
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.75287, -2.80986
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091216
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 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine couverte avec colonnes et banc en granit, mouluré et sculpté. Ouverture moulurée en plein cintre surmontée d'une accolade avec choux frisés. Deux colonnes aux angles l'encadrent. Les moulures de leurs bases se prolongent tout autour du petit monument et au-dessus d'un banc de pierre. Toiture à pignons aigus couverte de dalles de pierre.
English translation
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History
Covered fountain with columns and bench in granite, moulded and sculpted. Opening with mouldings in round arch surmounted by an accolade with curled cabbage leaves. Two columns at the angles frame it. The mouldings of their bases extend all around the small monument and above a stone bench. Roofing with acute gables covered with stone slabs.
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de Burgochapelleunder 1 mi
- Croix de chemincroix de chemin2 mi
- Maison de prêtre de Chanticoqmaison2 mi
- Cimetièrecimetière2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.