Vayres No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 10174VAY
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Georges [already in ruins ca. 1628]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located in the canton of Rochechouart, and about 8 km from that town
Font Location in Church: [destroyed]
Century and Period: , Medieval
M. l'abbé Montel, in his monograph on the village (1925: 4), mentions that this parish church, one of three in the village, was sacked during the early years of the Wars of Religion. In 1558, in the reign of Henri II, the church was broken into, its doors and windows destroyed, as was the baptismal font that existed in this church. Montel (ibid.) informs that the church still existed in 1560, but it was in complete ruins by 1628. In the 17th century the parish of Saint-Georges was attached to that of Saint-Jean [http://faure.roger.free.fr/vayres/autres/documents/monographie_abbe_montel.pdf] [cf. Index entry for Vayres No. 2 for the font at the parish of Saint-Jean in the same village]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Montel, E., Monographie de la Paroisse de Vayres, 1925