Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine de Recoule
Viane, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de Recoule : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/07/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Viane
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.73920, 2.57461
- Mérimée reference
- PA00095655
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IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 15: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La fontaine présente deux vasques en pierre réunies par un support cenral de section carrée et chanfreiné. La vasque supérieure, de petite dimension, est de forme polygonale. La seconde vasque est circulaire, beaucoup plus grande et repose sur un massif de maçonnerie. L'ensemble est surmonté d'un petit bloc de pierre taillé en tronc de pyramide quadrangulaire, dont une face est ornée d'une figure imberbe coiffée d'un bonnet rigide. Le cou est entouré d'une fraise, rappelant une mode de la fin du 16e ou du début du 17e siècle. Au-dessous est sculpté un lion héraldique.
English translation
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History
The fountain presents two stone basins united by a central support of square section and chamfered. The upper basin, of small dimensions, is of polygonal form. The second basin is circular, much larger and rests on a mass of masonry. The ensemble is surmounted by a small block of stone cut in the form of a quadrangular truncated pyramid, one face of which is ornamented with a beardless figure crowned with a rigid bonnet. The neck is encircled with a ruff, recalling a fashion of the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century. Below is carved a heraldic lion.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.