Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine publique
Naves, Corrèze, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine publique : inscription par arrêté du 19 mars 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/03/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Naves
- Département
- Corrèze
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.31309, 1.76690
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099814
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 1711 map "Le Gouvernement General De Guinne et Gascogne ...." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine composée d'une cuve en granit du 14e siècle, couverte de sculptures en méplat qui paraissent représenter les signes du zodiaque entre deux torsades. La pyramide centrale a dû être ajoutée au 18e siècle.
English translation
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History
Fountain composed of a 14th-century granite basin, covered with flat-relief sculptures which appear to represent the signs of the zodiac between two twisted ornaments. The central pyramid must have been added in the 18th century.
Nearby in the register
- Église Saint-Pierreégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de Bachchâteau1 mi
- Ruines gallo-romaines de Tintignacsite archéologique1 mi
- Préfecture de Tullepréfecture3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.