Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de Kergornet
Merlevenez, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de Kergornet (non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 6 juin 1933
- Protection dates
- 1933/06/06 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Merlevenez
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.73332, -3.23755
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091443
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 massive en granit. La source est surmontée d'une niche. L'encorbellement est soutenu par deux gros piliers taillés en balustres. Toiture en dôme quadrangulaire.
English translation
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History
Massive granite fountain. The source is surmounted by a niche. The corbelling is supported by two large pillars cut as balusters. Quadrangular dome roof.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Joieégliseunder 1 mi
- Fontaine du bourgfontaine2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame de Pitiééglise2 mi
- Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Clarté de Locadourchapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.