Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine voisine de la vieille tour
Marsat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine voisine de la vieille tour : inscription par arrêté du 12 novembre 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/11/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Marsat
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.87572, 3.08250
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092178
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 LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1776 map "52 Clermont." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La fontaine est couverte d'une voûte plein cintre dont l'arête frontale est moulurée. De chaque côté est un pilastre corinthien portant un entablement. Sur celui-ci, au centre, s'élève une croix aux branches fleuronnées et portant un crucifix attaché par trois clous. De chaque côté, sur un piédestal, se trouvent la Vierge et Saint-Jean.
English translation
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History
The fountain is covered with a barrel vault whose front edge is moulded. On each side is a Corinthian pilaster bearing an entablature. On this, at the centre, rises a cross with floriated branches bearing a crucifix attached by three nails. On each side, on a pedestal, are the Virgin and Saint John.
Nearby in the register
- Vieille Tourédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
- Monastère des Bénédictinesétablissement conventuelunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
- Croix du 16e siècle en lave de Volviccroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.