Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien pont de Taizon
Argenton-l'Eglise;Bagneux;Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay, Deux-Sèvres, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont de Taizon (ancien), sur le Thouet : inscription par arrêté du 22 septembre 1943
- Protection dates
- 1943/09/22 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Address
- C.G.C. 37
- Commune
- Argenton-l'Eglise;Bagneux;Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay
- Département
- Deux-Sèvres
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.05289, -0.22700
- Mérimée reference
- PA00101178
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 LibrariesBayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1579 map "(28) Andegavensium." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ce pont semble remonter au 11e ou au début du 12e siècle. L'ouvrage se compose d'une série de quatre arches en arc brisé et de trois plus petites au voisinage des culées. Cette construction repose sur des piles en maçonnerie de moellons en forme d'éperon en amont, et rectangulaire en aval.
English translation
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History
This bridge seems to date back to the 11th or early 12th century. The structure consists of a series of four arches of pointed arch form and three smaller ones in the vicinity of the abutments. This construction rests on piers of rubble stone masonry in the form of a cutwater upstream, and rectangular downstream.
Nearby in the register
- Ancienne commanderie de Praillescommanderieunder 1 mi
- Château de Sanzaychâteau2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Château de la Rochechâteau2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.