Sauvat

Jean Baptiste Déribier du Chatelet's Dictionnaire statistique (vol. 5, 1857: 298) notes: "Son église, d'architecture ogivale, n'a rien de remarquable; elle est sous l'invocation de saint Martin. On voit dans le cimetière qui l'entoure une cuve de fonts baptismaux ornée d'écussons et de bas-reliefs, et qui sert de base à une croix sans caractère." An octagonal baptismal basin of uncertaing dating, perhaps Romanesque, described in the source [cantalromane.free.fr/Mauricois] as the product of a rather crude rustic art ["produit d'un art paysan assez rude"] and ornamented with seven motifs: a cross, flowers, circles and foliage, the latter with ascending and descending leaves; the eighth motif is reported as disappeared [erased? or perhaps never there if the font was meant to have one side against a wall?]. The font re-cycled as cross base is listed in the Fonds Iconographique du Group de Recherches Historiques et Archéologigues de la Vallée de la Sumène (GRHAVS) [Réf. 82 Fi 1244 1979] [http://archives.cantal.fr/ark:/16075/a011424787983JC69tO] [accessed 2 February 2017]; it shows a monolithic object of octagonal shape with motifs on the sides.