Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont dit Pont de Bounery
Saint-André-de-Chalencon, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont dit Pont de Bounery : inscription par arrêté du 23 septembre 1949
- Protection dates
- 1949/09/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- Sur l'Ance à 300 m en aval du pont du Diable
- Commune
- Saint-André-de-Chalencon
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28576, 3.97834
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092826
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 1637 map "The Province and citie of Lions. Lyonnois forest et Beaujolois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Pont sans doute construit pour desservir le château de Chalençon. Construit sans avant becs, dont les éperons sont à la fois des brise-lames et des épaulements, un massif important de maçonnerie donne à la grande arche une allure de légèreté et de résistance marquée. L'ouverture de la petite arche latérale a été bouchée.
English translation
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History
Bridge no doubt built to serve the castle of Chalençon. Built without cutwaters, the spurs of which are at once breakwaters and embankments, a substantial mass of masonry gives the great arch an appearance of lightness and marked resistance. The opening of the small lateral arch has been blocked.
Nearby in the register
- Ruines du bâtiment dit La Préfecturepréfectureunder 1 mi
- Ruines du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Chapellechapelleunder 1 mi
- Vieux Pont dit Pont du Diablepontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.