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Fountain Saint-Roch and its enclosure à Lanvaudan dans le Morbihan

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine urbain
Fontaine
Morbihan

Fountain Saint-Roch and its enclosure

    Route de Saint-Roch
    56240 Lanvaudan
Private property
Fontaine Saint-Roch de Lanvaudan
Fontaine Saint-Roch et son enceinte
Crédit photo : LionelRauch - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1er quart XIXe siècle
Construction of the fountain
30 juin 1933
Registration historical monument
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Fontaine Saint-Roch and its enclosure (Box A 615): inscription by order of 30 June 1933

Origin and history

The Saint-Roch Fountain is a small granite edicle located in Lanvaudan, Morbihan, England. Built in the 1st quarter of the 19th century, it consists of a background wall, two columnettes with arcades, and one entably topped with wingers and a wrought iron cross. A support wall frames the spring, rectangular at the front and semicircular around.

The fountain and its enclosure were listed as historical monuments by order of 30 June 1933. This type of monument, typical of Breton fountains, often served as a place of devotion or communal water, reflecting the importance of sources in the daily and religious life of local people.

The available data also mention possible confusion with the Notre-Dame fountain, located in the village of Lanvaudan, but the sources clearly specify the inscription of the Saint-Roch fountain. Its sober granite architecture and its wrought iron cross illustrate the local traditions of construction and religious symbolism of the time.

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