Marsat / Marciacum
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10455MAR
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Marsat [baptistery disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092177]: "Cet édifice est l'église de l'ancien prieuré bénédictin (nef nord). Grégoire de Tours mentionne l'église de Marsat entre 537 et 590 [...] Au 7e siècle, l'évêque Saint-Priest y fonda un monastère de femmes qui, en 1165, adopta la règle de Saint-Benoît [...] partie romane formant aujourd'hui son collatéral nord dont la construction remonterait au 10e siècle."
Church Address: Rue de l'Église, 63200 Marsat, France
Site Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D405, W of the D446, 4 km SW of Riom, 15 km N of Clermont-Ferrand
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Clermont
Additional Comments: disappeared baptistery
Font Notes:
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Early-Christian baptistery, possibly in a church of between 537 and 590 referred to by Gregory of Tours [cf. ChurchNotes]; it later became a Benedictine priory that disappeared in the Revolution; afterwards re-built as the Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Marsat.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 506402 5080407
REFERENCES
- Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998, vol. 2