Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont de Lajous
Rieux-Volvestre, Haute-Garonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont de Lajous : inscription par arrêté du 11 avril 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/04/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 17e siècle
- Dates
- 1620
- Architect or builder
- Monge Pierre (architecte)
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Commune
- Rieux-Volvestre
- Département
- Haute-Garonne
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.25819, 1.20381
- Mérimée reference
- PA00094441
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 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
En 1600, le pont menace ruine. L'architecte Pierre Monge est chargé en 1620 de la construction de l'arcade qui est tombée au pont de brique. Le pont comportait autrefois une porte à chaque extrémité. La porte menant à la bastide a été démolie au 19e siècle.
English translation
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History
In 1600, the bridge threatened to collapse. The architect Pierre Monge was entrusted in 1620 with the construction of the arch which had fallen at the brick bridge. The bridge formerly comprised a gate at each end. The gate leading to the bastide was demolished in the 19th century.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Maison à pans de boismaisonunder 1 mi
- Ancienne cathédrale Sainte-Mariecathédraleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.