Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle-fontaine du 15e siècle, dite La Grand Font, ou fontaine Sainte-Radegonde
La Châtre, Indre, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle-fontaine du 15e siècle dite La Grand Font (cad. non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue de la Fontaine
- Commune
- La Châtre
- Département
- Indre
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.58215, 1.99055
- Mérimée reference
- PA00097308
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1707 map "La Province de Berry. La Generalite de Bourges." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Au pied de l'ancien donjon se trouve un petit édicule du 15e siècle, la chapelle fontaine de la Grand Font. Autour d'un socle à six pans, autrefois surmonté d'un calvaire, se trouvent trois petites niches dont deux forment chapelles et la troisième donne accès à la source. Ces petits édicules contiennent eux-mêmes des petites niches avec statues. Des fleurons à choux frisés terminent deux des frontons, et trois rosaces tréflées décorent les pans intermédiaires. Ce petit édifice est un exemple unique de fontaine publique du 15e siècle encore bien conservée.
English translation
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History
At the foot of the old keep is found a small edifice from the 15th century, the fountain chapel of the Grand Font. Around a six-sided base, formerly topped with a calvary, are found three small niches of which two form chapels and the third gives access to the spring. These small edifices contain themselves small niches with statues. Crinkled cabbage flowers terminate two of the pediments, and three trefoil roses decorate the intermediate sides. This small building is a unique example of a public fountain from the 15th century still well preserved.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien château seigneurialchâteauunder 1 mi
- Maison du 15e siècle à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Puits gothiquepuitsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.