Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont Charles-Martel sur la Cèze
La Roque-sur-Cèze, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont Charles-Martel sur la Cèze (cad. non cadastré ; domaine public) : classement par arrêté du 23 octobre 1980
- Protection dates
- 1980/10/23 : classé MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- R.N. 166
- Commune
- La Roque-sur-Cèze
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.19328, 4.52332
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103183
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
IGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1705 map "Gouvernement General de Languedoc et Partie de celuy de Guienne et Gascogne." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'ouvrage est composé de dix arches en plein cintre. Il accuse un léger dos d'âne en son milieu. Des avant-becs triangulaires protègent les piles contre la force du courant.
English translation
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History
The work is composed of ten round arches. It has a slight hump-backed profile in the middle. Triangular cut-waters protect the piers against the force of the current.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien prieuréprieuré3 mi
- Église Notre-Dameéglise3 mi
- Ancienne église castrale Sainte-Agathe et vestiges du château de Sabranchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.