Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux pont
Bellac, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont (vieux), sur le Vincou : inscription par arrêté du 23 mai 1969
- Protection dates
- 1969/05/23 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 13e siècle, 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Bellac
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.11632, 1.04979
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100243
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 1703 map "Map of the Geography of Ancient France). (continued.)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le pont a conservé son aspect primitif. Il se compose de deux arches principales de tracé brisé et, aux extrémités, de deux arches secondaires plus petites, l'une brisée, l'autre en plein cintre. Côté amont, trois avant-becs avancent de sept pieds environ par rapport au nu général. Les deux extrêmes sont de tracé brisé ; celui du centre est en mitre et porte une croix en bois. Côté aval, arrière-becs plats en saillie. L'ensemble forme un dos d'âne dont le sommet est situé dans l'axe de la deuxième arche.
English translation
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History
The bridge has preserved its primitive appearance. It consists of two main arches of broken profile and, at the ends, of two secondary smaller arches, one broken, the other round arch. On the upstream side, three cutwaters advance approximately seven feet with respect to the general line. The two outer ones are of broken profile; the central one is of mitered form and carries a wooden cross. On the downstream side, flat cutwaters in relief. The whole forms a back-like ridge whose summit is situated in the axis of the second arch.
Nearby in the register
- Église de l'Assomption-de-la-Très-Sainte-Viergeégliseunder 1 mi
- Hôtel du 18e siècle, actuellement sous-préfecture de Bellachôtelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.