Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du 12e siècle
Artonne, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine du 12e siècle, dans le quartier de Montjoli : inscription par arrêté du 21 janvier 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/01/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- quartier de Montjoli
- Commune
- Artonne
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.00414, 3.14371
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091871
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesTexas A&M University LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "51 Gannat, St. Pourcain." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine publique d'époque romane, formée d'une petite construction rectangulaire, bâtie en grand appareil d'arkose taillé en fougère, et couverte d'un toit à double rampant. La face de la fontaine est ornée d'une tête en forme de macaron servant de jet d'eau.
English translation
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History
Public fountain of Romanesque period, formed of a small rectangular construction, built in large ashlar of arkose dressed in fern pattern, and covered with a double-pitch roof. The face of the fountain is ornamented with a head in the form of a mascaron serving as water jet.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Martinégliseunder 1 mi
- Maison Treilhesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Fontaine du 12e sièclefontaineunder 1 mi
- Château du Vergerchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.