Pontsericourt in Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt

The second medieval church in the present municipality of Tavaux-et-Pontséricourt was apparently scheduled for demolition, as it had been much abandoned and the commune could not support two churches. A local association was formed for the "sauvegarde du Fort de Condé et des églises et monuments en péril du Sud-Picardie", and one of its actions was to save the old church at Pontséricourt [="C’est ainsi que nous avons pu sauver de la ruine et probablement de la démolition cette petite église de Pontséricourt, restaurée au fur et à mesure de nos moyens mis en œuvre."] The old wooden altar was moved to the church of Royaucourt, the old clock mechanism to the "donjon du château-fort de Ventadour en Ardèche", and the belfry was repaired in 1974. The church at Pontséricourt became a monument to the Resistance victims of 1944 [source: www.amis-st-julien-royaucourt.org/histoire_fichiers/eglise_st_julien_et_p_pottier_internet.htm [accessed 4 January 2014] -- the source does not mention the presence of a font in the old church or its whereabouts].