Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Puits
Breuillet, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Puits, dans la ferme de Chazelac : inscription par arrêté du 12 mai 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/05/12 : inscrit MH
- Type
- puits
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1593
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Breuillet
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.70749, -1.06738
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104634
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 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le puits est couvert par un édicule cylindrique, en pierre, percé de quatre ouvertures cintrées et coiffé d'une coupole. Quatre statues d'hommes nus étaient accolées aux montants. Trois sont conservées. Chacune est surmontée d'un groupe d'objets. Une inscription entoure le monument, sous la coupole.
English translation
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History
The well is covered by a cylindrical ediculae, in stone, pierced with four round-arched openings and topped with a dome. Four statues of nude men were attached to the uprights. Three are preserved. Each is surmounted by a group of objects. An inscription surrounds the monument, below the dome.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.