Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont Roby
Felletin, Creuse, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont Roby : inscription par arrêté du 15 juin 1926
- Protection dates
- 1926/06/15 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété du département
- Commune
- Felletin
- Département
- Creuse
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.87744, 2.17116
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100072
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 1753 map "Marche, Limosin, Auvergne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Quatre arches, celles des extrémités en plein cintre, les deux autres en arc brisé. En 1447, le pont s'appelait pont sombre, puis il prit le nom d'un industriel dont la fabrique était proche.
English translation
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History
Four arches, those at the extremities round arch, the two others pointed arch. In 1447, the bridge was called dark bridge, then it took the name of an industrialist whose factory was nearby.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne tour de rempartenceinteunder 1 mi
- Église Sainte-Valérie, dite église du Moutierégliseunder 1 mi
- Immeubleimmeubleunder 1 mi
- Maison dite du Baillimaisonunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.