Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont faisant franchir la Sorgues
Saint-Félix-de-Sorgues, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont faisant franchir la Sorgues : inscription par arrêté du 13 avril 1944
- Protection dates
- 1944/04/13 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Félix-de-Sorgues
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.88149, 2.98559
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094150
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 15: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ouvrage se compose de trois arches en plein cintre d'inégale grandeur, la plus grande sur laquelle se forme le dos d'âne étant au midi. Un avant-bec triangulaire est bâti sur la pile séparant la grande arche de l'arche médiane. La construction est en tuf calcaire du pays. Le parapet est en pierre d'appareil.
English translation
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History
The structure consists of three round arches of unequal size, the largest one, on which the humpback is formed, being on the south side. A triangular cutwater is built on the pier separating the large arch from the middle arch. The construction is in local limestone tufa. The parapet is in ashlar stone.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.