Mercoeur / Mercorio / Mércuer

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design element - motifs - circle - beaded-tape

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design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: a wawy motif ondulates across a zigzag one
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design element - motifs - rope - braided

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design element - patterns - sawtooth

Scene Description: all around the lower basin side
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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - capital

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the damage at the upper rim, likely from an old cover hardware
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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1997 by Philippe Rivière, in Mémoire [NUMI 97190983XA], [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0507/ivr74_97190983xa_p.jpg] [accessed 21 February 2017]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 04076MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 19430 Mercoeur, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the D33-D41-D136 roads, between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Aurillac, 35 kms SSE of Tulle [not to be mistaken with its homonym in Haute-Loire]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel, left side
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: original church recorded as a donation to the Abbaye de Beaulieu in 887; present church listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099801]: "L'histoire rapporte qu'une première église dont il ne reste pas de traces fut édifiée au 11e siècle par les Scorailles. L'édifice actuel se compose d'un choeur du 15e siècle à cinq pans, couvert de voûtes nervées avec liernes et tiercerons, et d'une nef unique paraissant dater du 17e siècle" -- baptistery restored in 1984
Font Notes:
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a Romanesque granite font with interlace ornamentation. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM19000261]: "La ceinture inférieure de la cuve est sculptée d'une rangée de dents de scie, la ceinture supérieure d'une double corde ; entre les ceintures court une frise formée de cinq losanges entrelacés [...] Avant classement : bordure supérieure altérée, 8 trous attestent de l'ancienne fixation d'un couvercle [...] 13e siècle". Noted and illustrated in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 21 February 2017]: "cuve baptismale, également en granit, ornée d’entrelacs". Noted in the web site of the Groupe paroissial de Morcoeur [http://paroisse-mercoeur.e-monsite.com/pages/eglises/mercoeur.html] [accessed 21 February 2017]: "Les fonts baptismaux, actuellement dans la chapelle de gauche, sont en granit. Ils datent du douzième siècle et se trouvaient autrefois près de l'église, à l'extérieur." The font, as indicated in the Palissy listing above, had a cover from which the drilled holes of its metal staples are still to be seen in the upper rim; it has a drain hole in the centre of the inner basin. No cover present now. The large basin is raised on a quadrangular stone block now, not part of the original font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 417133 4985244

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16.6 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm [calculated]
Diameter (includes rim): 94 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM19000261]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-