Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de Gorvello
Sulniac, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de Gorvello (cad. ZY 108) : inscription par arrêté du 11 juin 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/06/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- le Gorvello
- Commune
- Sulniac
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.63911, -2.59609
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091748
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 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine en bordure de route, composée d'un piédroit ou dosseret accompagné de deux colonnes dégagées, en avant desquelles sont deux autres colonnes isolées. Sur le tout repose une dalle monolithe dont les bords sont traités en corniche avec denticules. Sur le dessus, frontons à silhouette d'ailerons ou rinceaux. Cabochons sur les angles.
English translation
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History
Fountain on the roadside, composed of a reveal or dosseret accompanied by two detached columns, in front of which are two other isolated columns. On the whole rests a monolith slab whose edges are treated as cornicing with dentils. On top, pediments with silhouette of wings or scrollwork. Cabochons on the angles.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gorvelloégliseunder 1 mi
- Château du Plessis-Jossochâteauunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Michel de Brangolochapelle1 mi
- Château de Trémoarchâteau1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.