Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du bourg
Sainte-Hélène, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine du bourg (cad. A 900) : inscription par arrêté du 29 mars 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/03/29 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de la Fontaine
- Commune
- Sainte-Hélène
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.71981, -3.20366
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091683
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
La fontaine, en contrebas de quelques marches, est dominée par un motif : mur de fond et deux piliers doriques supportant un entablement avec baldaquin à quatre branches, le tout en granit. L'ouvrage est situé près de l'église.
English translation
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History
The fountain, below a few steps, is dominated by a motif: back wall and two Doric pillars supporting an entablature with baldachin with four branches, all in granite. The structure is located near the church.
Nearby in the register
- Fontaine de Kergornetfontaine2 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-Joieéglise2 mi
- Chapelle de Locmariachapelle2 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Cadochapelle2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.