Vaux nr. Montluçon

INFORMATION

FontID: 03896VAU
Church/Chapel: In Vaux, in a nearby farm (originally from the church of Saint-Pardoux d'Argentières)
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: In the canton de Montluçon, arrondissement de Montluçon
Font Location in Church: In a farm
Century and Period: 8th century, Merovingian?
Church Notes: The old church of Saint-Pardoux d'Argentières is dated to the 12th century and serves now [ca. 1999] as a cattle pen / shepherd hut.
Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 2, p. 788) as a "cuve baptismale mérovingienne provient du mobilier de l'église Saint-Pardoux d'Argentières, désaffectée en 1802" and now [ca. 1999] being kept in the courtyard of a nearby farm. The illustration in the source [Ibid.] shows a plain cylindrical object of crude work, consistent perhaps with stone fonts of a similar type dated to the 10th, 1th and 12th centuries, and the said church has been dated to the 12th century, although the parish itself is reported [Ibid.] in the cahrt dated 31 August 802, among the property restored to the abbey of Saint-Denis by Charlemagne.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite