Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Restes de l'aqueduc romain de l'Hermitage
Saint-Benoît, Vienne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Aqueduc romain de l'Hermitage (restes) : inscription par arrêté du 28 juin 1927
- Protection dates
- 1927/06/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- aqueduc
- Main period of construction
- Haut-Empire
- Ownership
- propriété privée
- Commune
- Saint-Benoît
- Département
- Vienne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 46.55781, 0.32339
- Mérimée reference
- PA00105682
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1714 map "Carte du Gouvernement d'Orleanois" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'aqueduc acheminait l'eau captée à Basse-Fontaine. Les vestiges présentent sept piles rectangulaires d'environ 3, 10m sur 1, 10m, espacées entre elles de 6, 80m. Plus au sud-est, l'ouvrage n'est plus construit sur arcs, mais sur un mur, avant de devenir souterrain. Au nord-ouest de la parcelle se trouve une série de trois arcs, appelée arcs de Parigny. Dans sa partie souterraine, l'aqueduc est visible le long de la route.
English translation
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History
The aqueduct conveyed water captured at Basse-Fontaine. The remains present seven rectangular piers of approximately 3.10m by 1.10m, spaced between them 6.80m apart. Further to the south-east, the structure is no longer built on arcs, but on a wall, before becoming underground. To the north-west of the plot is found a series of three arcs, called the arcs of Parigny. In its underground section, the aqueduct is visible along the road.
Nearby in the register
- Château du Fief-Clairetchâteauunder 1 mi
- Ancienne abbayeabbaye1 mi
- Église Saint-Cyprienéglise1 mi
- Ancien doyenné Saint-Hilairepresbytère1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.