Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont de Montferrand
Banassac, Lozère, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Pont de Montferrand : inscription par arrêté du 18 octobre 1935
- Protection dates
- 1935/10/18 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Banassac
- Département
- Lozère
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.45224, 3.19379
- Mérimée reference
- PA00103787
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1780 map "55 Mende." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Construit en grès taillé, l'ouvrage se compose d'une grande arche centrale et de deux arches latérales plus petites, dont celle située à l'ouest fut modifiée lors de la construction du chemin de fer Béziers-Neussargues. L'une des piles de l'arche centrale est protégée par un contrefort brise-lames, dont les moellons sont reliés par un mortier comparable au ciment romain. Ce pont fut construit par le pape lozérien Urbain V.
English translation
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History
Constructed in dressed sandstone, the structure consists of a large central arch and two smaller lateral arches, of which the one situated to the west was modified during the construction of the Béziers-Neussargues railway. One of the piers of the central arch is protected by a buttress with a wave-breaking prow, whose rubble stones are bonded by mortar comparable to Roman cement. This bridge was built by the Lozère-born pope Urban V.
Nearby in the register
- Maison de Nogaret dite La Mansardemaison2 mi
- Maisonmaison2 mi
- Église Saint-Martinéglise2 mi
- Maisons à pans de boismaison2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.