Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux pont
Le Vigan, Gard, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Vieux pont : classement par arrêté du 15 mars 1938
- Protection dates
- 1938/03/15 : classé MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Le Vigan
- Département
- Gard
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.98903, 3.60744
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103301
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 1752 map "Languedoc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Le pont, ouvrage de 80 mètres de longueur, se compose de quatre arches décroissantes, construites en pierre de taille. Le parement est en petits moëllons.
English translation
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History
The bridge, a structure of 80 metres in length, comprises four decreasing arches, constructed in dressed stone. The facing is in small rubble stone.
Nearby in the register
- Ancien hôtel de Faventines dit Château d'Assashôtelunder 1 mi
- Ancien hospicehospiceunder 1 mi
- Château de Mareilleschâteauunder 1 mi
- Maisonmaison3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.