Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine Saint-Clair
Réguiny, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine Saint-Clair sise au milieu d'un pré (cad. F 20) : inscription par arrêté du 24 février 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/02/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Clair
- Commune
- Réguiny
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.98206, -2.75613
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091633
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 LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
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
Massif de maçonnerie en pierre de taille sur plan rectangulaire à pignon. Niche avec cintre correspondant à la piscine. Niche avec statue de saint. Façade ornée de deux colonnes doriques et entablement interrompu. En avant, vasque dans le sol dans laquelle les gens viennent se laver les yeux, Saint-Clair étant invoqué pour la vue.
English translation
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History
Mass of ashlar masonry on rectangular plan with gable. Niche with arch corresponding to the piscina. Niche with statue of saint. Façade adorned with two Doric columns and interrupted entablature. In front, basin in the ground into which people come to wash their eyes, Saint-Clair being invoked for sight.
Nearby in the register
- Cimetièrecimetièreunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Fiacrechapelle2 mi
- Fontaine Saint-Fiacrefontaine2 mi
- Château de Porhmanchâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.