Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine Balainvilliers
Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine Balainvilliers : inscription par arrêté du 9 février 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/02/09 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1764
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la Fédération
- Commune
- Riom
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.89405, 3.11120
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092272
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine élevée en 1764 sous l'intendance de monsieur de Balainvilliers. L'ouvrage se présente comme un massif carré orné sur chaque face de pilastres ioniques. Chacune des faces encadre une longue inscription latine ou française. Le couronnement de la fontaine est caractéristique de l'époque.
English translation
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History
Fountain erected in 1764 under the intendancy of monsieur de Balainvilliers. The work presents itself as a square mass ornamented on each face with Ionic pilasters. Each of the faces frames a long Latin or French inscription. The crowning of the fountain is characteristic of the period.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne abbaye Saint-Amableabbayeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Amableégliseunder 1 mi
- Baptistère Saint-Jeanbaptistèreunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.