Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Pont des Pélerins
Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac, Aveyron, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Le pont en totalité, avec sa croix (cad. non cadastré, domaine public, section AN, à la limite de la parcelle 174) : inscription par arrêté du 10 août 2005
- Protection dates
- 2005/08/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- Fin du Moyen Age
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac
- Département
- Aveyron
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.58892, 2.92152
- Mérimée reference
- PA12000036
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 1636 map "La partie Septentrionale du Languedoc" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Sur la route de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle, le pont enjambe la Boralde par deux arches. Légèrement incliné, long de seize mètres, l'ouvrage a été réalisé en basalte et en micaschiste. Le pont est couronné d'une croix comportant à sa base un pèlerin sculpté avec son bâton et son bourdon. Le Christ sur sa croix est encadré de la Vierge et de Saint-Jean.
English translation
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History
On the road to Santiago de Compostela, the bridge spans the Boralde by two arches. Slightly inclined, sixteen metres long, the structure was executed in basalt and micaschist. The bridge is crowned with a cross bearing at its base a pilgrim sculpted with his staff and his walking staff. The Christ on his cross is flanked by the Virgin and Saint John.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.