Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine des Lions
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine des Lions (cad. non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 23 mars 1990
- Protection dates
- 1990/03/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 3e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1659
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue des Petits-Gras
- Commune
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.77827, 3.08367
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092509
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La première mention de la fontaine remonte à 1659. Construite en pierre de Volvic, elle se compose d'un bassin rectangulaire surmonté d'une arcade plein-cintre évidée, ornée de trois masques de lions crachant l'eau par des tuyaux. L'arcade, appareillée de claveaux à crossettes, à impostes et clefs nues saillantes, est surmontée d'une corniche et d'un fronton en ailerons à volutes supérieures restantes. Un piédestal central amorti par une boule achève la composition.
English translation
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History
The first mention of the fountain dates back to 1659. Constructed in Volvic stone, it consists of a rectangular basin surmounted by a recessed round arch, ornamented with three lion mask heads spouting water through spouts. The arch, coursed with stepped voussoirs, with impostas and projecting bare keystones, is surmounted by a cornice and a pediment with side volutes remaining above. A central pedestal finished with a ball completes the composition.
Nearby in the register
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Hôtelhôtelunder 1 mi
- Maison du 15e sièclemaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.