Valeyrac

INFORMATION

FontID: 17299VAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Saturnin
Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus
Country Name: France
Location: Lot, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D820, 3 km W of Turenne en , and just S of the regional border with the Limousin [NB: not to be mistalekn with the other Valeyrac, in Gironde, Aquitaine]
Font Location in Church: inside the church, at the N corner
Century and Period: , Medieval
Noted and illustrated in Penaud-Requier & Penaud (2010); baptismal font in this church is built against the north corner of the nave; the font consists of a reddish-stone basin built into a multi-stone three-sided frame, on which has been added a later -18th-century?- wooden rim-buffet type canopy cover with a panel door that opens out to give access to the interior.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Penaud-Requier, Jeanne, Eglises romanes en Pays Martelais, Aurillac (Cantal): ARPPM, 2010