Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du 17e siècle
Lacaze, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine du 17e siècle, située devant le château : inscription par arrêté du 18 juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Lacaze
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.73719, 2.52022
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095581
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesBayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'eau s'échappe du couronnement par les gueules de quatre béliers et tombe dans une vasque à six lobes sculptée de godrons, d'où six mascarons (trois têtes d'hommes et trois de femmes), l'envoient dans le bassin inférieur. Les côtés du pilastre sont décorés, en haut de la vasque, par quatre coquilles ; en bas, par quatre blasons usés.
English translation
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History
Water escapes from the crown through the mouths of four rams and falls into a six-lobed basin carved with fluting, from which six mascarons (three male heads and three female heads) send it into the lower basin. The sides of the pilaster are decorated, at the top of the basin, by four shells; at the bottom, by four worn coats of arms.
Nearby in the register
- Châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Fontaine de Recoulefontaine3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.