Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine
Aubusson, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place Général-Espagne
- Commune
- Aubusson
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.95798, 2.17269
- Mérimée reference
- PA00099992
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "13 Aubusson." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La vasque de cette fontaine semble être une cuve baptismale qui provient de l'abbaye de Moutier-Rozeille. En 1770, elle fut cédée à la ville d'Aubusson par les chanoines de Notre-Dame du Mont.
English translation
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History
The basin of this fountain appears to be a baptismal font which comes from the abbey of Moutier-Rozeille. In 1770, it was ceded to the town of Aubusson by the canons of Notre-Dame du Mont.
Nearby in the register
- Maison à pans de bois et encorbellementmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison Corneille ou du Vieux Tapissier, actuellement Musée des Arts et Traditions populairesmaisonunder 1 mi
- Vestiges du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Tour de l'Horlogeédifice fortifiéunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.