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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2013 by Patrick Boyer [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bert_église_St-Laurent_façade.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19071BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Laurent de Bert
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: church originally 11th-12thC (?) Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092991]: "Edifice roman des 11e et 12e siècles".
Church Address: 03130 Bert, France
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D269 [aka Locaterie des Places], NE of Vichy
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins
Historical Region: Pays de Lapalisse
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one of the original Romanesque church here)
Font Notes:
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Reported in an oral presentation by Georges de Soultrait to the 21st session of the 1854 Congrès archéologique de France, as one of several stone fonts of the late-15th or early-16th century in the Allier.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 554496 5130389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.324889, 3.707944
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 19′ 29.6″ N, 3° 42′ 28.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Société française d'archéologie, Congrès archéologique de France (XXIe session, Moulins, France, 1854), Paris: Derache, 1855, p. 120