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Pont Vieux de Cailhavel ou Pont Saint-Jean, sur la Rigole de la Plaine

Saint-Félix-Lauragais, Haute-Garonne, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
Protection
inscrit MH
Extent of protection
Pont (cad. domaine public, non cadastré) : inscription par arrêté du 24 avril 1998
Protection dates
1998/04/24 : inscrit MH
Type
canal, pont
Main period of construction
17e siècle
Ownership
propriété de l'État
Commune
Saint-Félix-Lauragais
Département
Haute-Garonne
Region
Occitanie
Country
France
Coordinates
43.43181, 1.91366
Mérimée reference
PA31000033

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Aquitaniae descriptio" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

L'un des ponts les plus intéressants de la rigole, le seul avec le pont du Riat à être proche de son état d'origine, et représentatif des ponts du 17e siècle. Très peu utilisé, il est aussi celui qui a subi le moins de modifications. Un abreuvoir est accolé à l'aval de la culée rive droite remaniée à une époque récente. Tous les détails de la construction de ce pont (taille des pierres, retraite des naissances de la voûte sur les pieds-droits des culées) incitent à le dater de l'époque de la construction du Canal.

English translation

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One of the most interesting bridges of the rigole, the only one along with the Riat bridge to be close to its original state, and representative of 17th-century bridges. Very little used, it is also the one which has undergone the least modifications. A water trough is attached to the downstream side of the right-bank abutment altered at a recent period. All the details of the construction of this bridge (size of the stones, retreat of the spring lines of the vault on the legs of the abutments) incline it to be dated to the period of the construction of the Canal.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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