Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien pont dit Pont romain
Chantelle, Allier, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont (ancien) dit Pont romain : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1928
- Protection dates
- 1928/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Gallo-romain
- Ownership
- propriété d'une personne privée
- Commune
- Chantelle
- Département
- Allier
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.24822, 3.18219
- Mérimée reference
- PA00093036
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1632 map "Carte du Pais de Bourbonois." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancien pont dit romain dont il subsiste trois arches. Les deux grandes ont environ 6, 50 mètres d'ouverture sur 1, 80 mètre de hauteur à la clef. La voûte est constituée d'un blocage de moellons formant claveaux. Il existait primitivement deux parements de 30 cm d'épaisseur, en claveaux de pierre de taille appareillée. Traces d'éperons sur les piles en amont.
English translation
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History
Former bridge called Roman of which three arches remain. The two large ones have approximately 6.50 metres opening on 1.80 metre height at the keystone. The vault is constituted of a mass of rubble stone forming voussoirs. There originally existed two faces of 30 cm thickness, in voussoirs of dressed stone. Traces of cutwaters on the piers upstream.
Nearby in the register
- Domaine du château de Blanzatchâteau1 mi
- Ancienne abbaye Saint-Vincentabbaye2 mi
- Ancienne église Saint-Blaise de Chareiléglise2 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.