Moirax
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Moirax - Église Notre-Dame - Ensemble"
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Image Source: digital photograph 10 July 2003 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moirax_-_Église_Notre-Dame_-_Ensemble.JPG] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03016MOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Priorale Notre-Dame de Moirax
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 10 Grand Rue, 47310 Moirax, France
Country Name: France
Location: Lot-et-Garonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Moirax is licated off the D268, 8 km S of Agen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Agen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: Delpal dates the original Cluniac priory church to the 11th century (France, 1985)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) among a group of difficult to late fonts, but Delpal (France, 1985) dates the priory church to the end of the 11th century, which is probably the date of the font as well.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.140886, 0.609655
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 8′ 27.19″ N, 0° 36′ 34.76″ E
UTM: 31T 308809 4890299
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: Unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985