Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine du Griffon de Soubeyran
Mende, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine de Soubeyran : inscription par arrêté du 8 mars 1946
- Protection dates
- 1946/03/08 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de Soubeyran
- Commune
- Mende
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.51660, 3.49908
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103863
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La construction remonterait au 14e siècle. Elle est mentionnée en 1341 et servait de déversoir aux sources de la Vabre. Un bassin en pierre de pays, de forme circulaire, possède en son centre, sur un socle en pierre, un motif en bronze d'où partent cinq tuyaux supportés par des esses en fer forgé.
English translation
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History
The construction is said to go back to the 14th century. It is mentioned in 1341 and served as a spillway for the springs of the Vabre. A basin in local stone, of circular form, possesses at its centre, on a stone plinth, a bronze motif from which five pipes depart supported by scrolls in wrought ironwork.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.