Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux Pont dit Pont du Diable
Saint-André-de-Chalencon, Haute-Loire, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Vieux Pont dit Pont du Diable : classement par arrêté du 24 décembre 1913
- Protection dates
- 1913/12/24 : classé MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-André-de-Chalencon
- Département
- Haute-Loire
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.28319, 3.98467
- Mérimée reference
- PA00092827
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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 d'époque romane qui semble n'avoir subi aucun remaniement, permettant de desservir le château de Chalençon. Sa largeur au tablier est d'environ 2, 80 mètres laissant une voie de deux mètres encore pavée de larges dalles. Le dos d'âne est très prononcé. Le pont franchit l'Ance par deux arches avec pile centrale et avant becs arrivant à mi hauteur des arcs. Les arches sont en plein cintre. Les arches, la pile et les culées sont seules en pierre de taille. Les parements sont en moellons appareillés sommairement.
English translation
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History
Bridge of Romanesque period which seems to have suffered no alteration, making it possible to provide access to the château de Chalençon. Its width at the deck is approximately 2.80 metres leaving a roadway of two metres still paved with large slabs. The back is very pronounced. The bridge crosses the Ance by two arches with central pier and angled breakwaters reaching to mid-height of the arches. The arches are in round arch. The arches, the pier and the abutments are alone in ashlar stone. The facing is in roughly coursed rubble stone.
Nearby in the register
- Chapellechapelleunder 1 mi
- Ruines du châteauchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ruines du bâtiment dit La Préfecturepréfectureunder 1 mi
- Croix de Durandcroix monumentaleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.