Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine Saint-Colomban
Locminé, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine Saint-Colomban (non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 8 mai 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/05/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Joseph-Richard
- Commune
- Locminé
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.88915, -2.83684
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091396
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Au-dessus de la fontaine, niche circulaire logée dans un massif de maçonnerie à fronton élancé dont les gâbles s'amortissent sur deux colonnettes et des mascarons. La statue du saint se trouve sur une console en granit.
English translation
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History
Above the fountain, circular niche set within a mass of masonry with a slender pediment whose gables are terminated on two colonettes and mascarons. The statue of the saint is found on a granite console.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Sauveur ou Saint-Colombanégliseunder 1 mi
- Chapelle de la Congrégation, ou chapelle Notre-Dame de Plasquerchapelleunder 1 mi
- Fontaine Saint-Éloifontaine1 mi
- Dolmen sous tumulus de Kergonfalzdolmen2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.