Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont sur le Gardon
Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont sur le Gardon : inscription par arrêté du 30 mai 1950
- Protection dates
- 1950/05/30 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 16e siècle, 18e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Jean-du-Gard
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.10464, 3.88060
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103220
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 1703 map "Parie Orientale Du Gouvernement General De Languedoc .." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
La tradition fait remonter la construction du pont à l'époque romaine, mais il paraît plutôt dater du 16e siècle, avec restauration de la maçonnerie au 18e siècle. L'ouvrage présente cinq arches avec dos d'âne au-dessus de l'arche principale. Des avant-becs triangulaires protègent les piles contre le courant. Arcs appareillés. Remplissage et blocage de maçonnerie ordinaire.
English translation
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History
Tradition ascribes the construction of the bridge to the Roman period, but it appears rather to date from the 16th century, with restoration of the masonry in the 18th century. The structure presents five arches with a back-to-back profile above the main arch. Triangular cutwater piers protect the columns against the current. Arches of dressed stone. Filling and ordinary masonry blocking.
Nearby in the register
- Temple protestanttempleunder 1 mi
- Ancienne égliseégliseunder 1 mi
- Ancienne filature dite Maison Rougefilatureunder 1 mi
- Pont dit Pont des Camisardspont3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.