Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine
Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine : inscription par arrêté du 11 mai 1932
- Protection dates
- 1932/05/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 18e siècle
- Dates
- 1872
- Architect or builder
- Gilbert Charles (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue Demoustier ; rue Tronchet
- Commune
- Villers-Cotterêts
- Département
- Aisne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 49.25239, 3.08877
- Mérimée reference
- PA00115986
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 1682 map "Champaigne et Brie etc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine exécutée en 1872 par le sculpteur Charles Gilbert, remplaçant une fontaine de 1833. L'ouvrage alimente la ville en eau jusqu'en 1929. Au 20e siècle, la tête humaine qui l'ornait est remplacée par une tête d'animal fabuleux.
English translation
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History
Fountain executed in 1872 by the sculptor Charles Gilbert, replacing a fountain of 1833. The structure supplied the town with water until 1929. In the 20th century, the human head which adorned it is replaced by a head of a fabulous creature.
Nearby in the register
- Hôtellerie du Régenthôtel de voyageursunder 1 mi
- Ancien logis abbatial des Prémontrés, actuel Hôtel de Villedemeureunder 1 mi
- Pavillon Henri IIdemeureunder 1 mi
- Église de Villers-Cotterêtségliseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.