Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont-Vieux
Millau, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Les deux arches et les piles subsistantes : classement par décret du 23 janvier 1934
- Protection dates
- 1934/01/23 : classé MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 11e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Millau
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.09352, 3.07510
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094065
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 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
A l'origine, ce pont, daté du 11e siècle, comprenait dix-sept arches et était défendu par trois tours fortifiées qui en commandaient le passage. La seconde tour comprenait, en aval, un moulin dit Moulin du Roi. Le pont s'étant écroulé en 1758 après une crue du Tarn, il n'en reste plus que deux arches, les piles les supportant ainsi que les parties basses du moulin. Le Moulin du Roi comprend actuellement une partie basse accolée à la seconde pile du pont et pouvant remonter au 12e siècle ; une construction moderne de deux étages construits en encorbellement sur les parties anciennes.
English translation
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History
Originally, this bridge, dated to the 11th century, comprised seventeen arches and was defended by three fortified towers which commanded its passage. The second tower comprised, downstream, a mill called the King's Mill. The bridge having collapsed in 1758 after a flood of the Tarn, there remain only two arches, the piles supporting them as well as the lower parts of the mill. The King's Mill currently comprises a lower part attached to the second pile of the bridge and able to date back to the 12th century; a modern construction of two storeys built in corbelling on the old parts.
Nearby in the register
- Moulin du pont vieuxmoulinunder 1 mi
- Lavoir de l'Ayrollelavoirunder 1 mi
- Hôtel de Sambucyhôtelunder 1 mi
- Temple protestanttempleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.