Vayres No. 1 / Vairas
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10174VAY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Georges à Vayres [already in ruins ca. 1628]
Font Location in Church: [destroyed]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: "L’église actuelle a été reconstruite entre 1869 et 1873 en remplacement de deux églises l’une dédiée à Saint Georges, l’autre dédiée à Saint Pierre."
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the present site] 4 Rte de Calice, 87600 Vayres, France
Site Location: Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D34-D675 crossroads, in the canton and about 9 km S of Rochechouart
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Limoges
Additional Comments: disappeared font: destroyed during the Wars of Religion, ca. 1558
Font Notes:
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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]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 329612 5069640
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.759312, 0.808996
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 45′ 33.52″ N, 0° 48′ 32.39″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Montel, E., Monographie de la Paroisse de Vayres, 1925, p. 4