Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du 16e siècle située sur la place centrale
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La fontaine : inscription par arrêté du 21 janvier 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/01/21 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Gayme
- Commune
- Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.51224, 2.93295
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091895
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "53 Brioude, Issoire." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Au centre d'une vasque circulaire s'élève une colonne portant un chapiteau hexagonal de chaque face duquel jaillit un corps de fontaine. Au-dessus du chapiteau se trouve une pyramide hexagonale se terminant par une boule.
English translation
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History
At the centre of a circular basin rises a column bearing a hexagonal capital from each face of which gushes a fountain body. Above the capital is found a hexagonal pyramid terminating in a ball.
Nearby in the register
- Maison des Boucheriesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite de la reine Margotmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison dite Ancien hôpital ou Maison Tournardremaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison, en face de l'hospicemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.