Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine
Saint-Flour, Cantal, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine : inscription par arrêté du 14 octobre 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/10/14 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1790
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue des Lacs ; rue Marchande
- Commune
- Saint-Flour
- Département
- Cantal
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.03287, 3.09237
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093613
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 1756 map "Carte de Cassini (c. 1756)" (IGN France — Géoportail).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine circulaire, construite en 1790, dont le déversoir est constitué par un motif décoratif en pierre sculptée, représentant un vase reposant sur un socle. L'eau coule de la bouche d'un masque situé sur le renflement.
English translation
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History
Circular fountain, constructed in 1790, whose spillway is formed by a decorative motif in sculpted stone, representing a vase resting on a plinth. Water flows from the mouth of a mask situated on the bulge.
Nearby in the register
- Porte des Tuilesporte de villeunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison (auberge de la Couronne)maisonunder 1 mi
- Maison du Gouverneurmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.