Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux Pont
Saint-Jean-de-Côle, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Vieux Pont sur la Côle : inscription par arrêté du 16 juillet 1925
- Protection dates
- 1925/07/16 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- sur la Côle
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-de-Côle
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.42190, 0.83692
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082847
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Vieux pont en dos d'âne, avec avant-becs aigus et trois arches en plein cintre. Les parapets ont été refaits. Il traverse la rivière en avant du bief qui conduisait l'eau au moulin de l'ancienne abbaye.
English translation
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History
Old bridge with back curved like a donkey's back, with acute cutwater and three round arches. The parapets have been remade. It crosses the river in front of the millrace which conducted water to the mill of the old abbey.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuré ou ancienne abbayeabbayeunder 1 mi
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptisteégliseunder 1 mi
- Château de la Marthonyechâteauunder 1 mi
- Site de la grotte des Frauxsite archéologique2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.