Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Fontaine municipale dite Font'Grand
Clairac, Lot-et-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Fontaine et son système hydraulique, à l'exclusion du lavoir contemporain (cad. AB 148) : inscription par arrêté du 19 avril 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/04/19 : inscrit MH
- Type
- fontaine
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1638
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue Gambetta
- Commune
- Clairac
- Département
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.35937, 0.38051
- Mérimée reference
- PA47000007
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 1783 map "72 Castillonez, Velleneuve, La Reole." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fontaine probablement du 16e ou du 17e siècle, constituée d'une salle couverte d'une voûte d'ogives abritant un bassin. Façade de style classique qui peut dater de 1909. Elle est formée d'une travée ionique à doubles pilastres encadrant une baie en plein cintre à impostes.
English translation
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History
Fountain probably from the 16th or 17th century, consisting of a room covered by a rib vault sheltering a basin. Façade of classical style which may date from 1909. It is formed of an Ionic bay with double pilasters framing a round arch opening with imposts.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien couvent dit Maison des Dames de la Foycouventunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Pierre-ès-Lienségliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye bénédictineabbayeunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.