Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du village
Orbessan, Gers, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine du village, à l'angle du chemin d'arrivée au village et du C.V. 6 de l'Armantole (cad. A 122) : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1947
- Protection dates
- 1947/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1776
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Orbessan
- Département
- Gers
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.54352, 0.60941
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094884
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 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine offerte au village par le chevalier de Bourg. Deux pilastres encadrent une partie centrale où se trouve l'inscription de donation, dans une moulure en boudin. Un entablement surmonte l'ensemble. Un bassin semi hexagonal se trouve devant.
English translation
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History
Fountain offered to the village by the chevalier de Bourg. Two pilasters frame a central part where the donation inscription is found, in a rounded moulding. An entablature crowns the whole. A semi-hexagonal basin is found in front.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.