Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Hôtel
Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine (cad. IP 34) : inscription par arrêté du 23 mars 1990
- Protection dates
- 1990/03/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- hôtel
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1641
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Address
- 31 rue des Chaussetiers
- Commune
- Clermont-Ferrand
- Département
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.77818, 3.08313
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092511
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
Fontaine de 1641 installée dans la cour intérieure de l'hôtel. L'ouvrage se compose d'un bassin rectangulaire aux flancs galbés en forme de panse de balustre. Le bassin est accolé contre une élévation décorative servant d'encadrement à un masque central d'où jaillissait autrefois l'eau. Cette composition comprend un petit bahut sur lequel repose deux ailerons affrontés à volutes saillantes, amortis par un cintre orné d'une clef centrale à décor feuillagé.
English translation
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History
Fountain of 1641 installed in the interior courtyard of the hôtel. The work comprises a rectangular basin with flanks curved in the form of a baluster belly. The basin is affixed against a decorative elevation serving as a frame for a central mask from which water formerly gushed. This composition comprises a small chest on which rest two opposed winged projections with protruding volutes, terminated by a curved section ornamented with a central keystone with foliage decoration.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.