Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont Saint-Etienne
Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont Saint-Etienne : classement par arrêté du 23 octobre 1907
- Protection dates
- 1907/10/23 : classé MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 1ère moitié 13e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Limoges
- Département
- Haute-Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.82903, 1.27067
- Mérimée reference
- PA00100380
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
Pont situé au pied de la cathédrale, dans l'ancienne cité. Il est formé de huit arches en ogives. Chaque pile est surmontée de refuges formant bec en amont et carrés en aval.
English translation
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History
Bridge situated at the foot of the cathedral, in the old city. It is formed of eight pointed arches. Each pier is surmounted by refuges forming a point upstream and square downstream.
Nearby in the register
- cathédrale Saint-Étiennecathédraleunder 1 mi
- Eglise et baptistère Saint-Jeanégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancien évêchépalais épiscopalunder 1 mi
- Ancien four à porcelaine G.D.A.faïencerieunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.