Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine
Le Château-d'Oléron, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine : classement par arrêté du 24 avril 1937
- Protection dates
- 1937/04/24 : classé MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place de la République
- Commune
- Le Château-d'Oléron
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.88651, -1.19595
- Mérimée reference
- PA00104646
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 1621 map "Carte du Pais d'Aunis Ville et Gouvernement de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Petite fontaine du milieu de la Renaissance, de plan carré, comprenant, à partie basse, quatre vasques rectangulaires ; au-dessus, un massif central portant à chacun de ses quatre angles, une colonne torse. Au-dessus, couronnant le monument, un entablement classique est surmonté d'un dôme de pierre.
English translation
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History
Small fountain from the mid-Renaissance, of square plan, comprising, at the lower part, four rectangular basins; above, a central mass bearing at each of its four corners a twisted column. Above, crowning the monument, a classical entablature is surmounted by a stone dome.
Nearby in the register
- Citadelle et fortificationscitadelleunder 1 mi
- Dolmen d'Ors dit la Piaredolmen2 mi
- Pont Napoléon, dit aussi pont de la Brande ou pont Vaubanpont2 mi
- Fort du Chapusfort2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.