Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Vieux pont
Pont-sur-Yonne, Yonne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Vieux pont (cad. non cadastré, domaine public) : inscription par arrêté du 10 février 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/02/10 : inscrit MH
- Type
- pont
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 17e siècle
- Later work
- 18e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Pont-sur-Yonne
- Département
- Yonne
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.28686, 3.20568
- Mérimée reference
- PA89000011
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 1682 map "Champaigne et Brie etc." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
L'histoire du pont est liée à celle du bourg. Les premiers ponts étaient construits en bois. A la fin du 17e siècle, construction en pierre d'un pont, réparé aux 18e et 19e siècles. Seules trois arches de ce pont subsistent avec leurs piles.
English translation
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History
The history of the bridge is linked to that of the town. The first bridges were built in wood. At the end of the 17th century, construction of a stone bridge, repaired in the 18th and 19th centuries. Only three arches of this bridge remain with their piers.
Nearby in the register
- Église Notre-Dameégliseunder 1 mi
- Abbaye de la Cour-Notre-Dame (ancienne)abbaye1 mi
- Cimetière désaffectécimetière2 mi
- Égliseéglise2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.