Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont de Saint-Goustan
Auray, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont de Saint-Goustan (non cadastré ; domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 13 avril 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/04/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Saint-Goustan
- Commune
- Auray
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.66648, -2.97947
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091011
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 1773 map "7me. Carte Particuliere des Costes de Bretagne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ouvrage se compose de quatre arches en anse de panier que séparent trois avant-becs, en amont comme en aval. Ces avant-becs montent jusqu'au tablier du pont et forment à sa hauteur six retraites.
English translation
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History
The structure is composed of four basket-handle arches separated by three cutwaters, both upstream and downstream. These cutwaters rise to the level of the bridge deck and form six recesses at its height.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.