Lurcy-Levis / Lurcy-Lévis / Lurcy-le-Sauvage

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view of church exterior - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2011 by Modillons58 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lurcy_Levis_Eglise_(2).jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 October 2011 by Modillons58 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lurcy_Levis_Eglise_(1).jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 19073LUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin de Lurcy-Lévis

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours

Church Notes: church originally 12thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093143]: "Eglise du 12e siècle, remaniée à diverses époques".

Church Address: 03320 Lurcy-Lévis, France

Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D1-D978A crossroads, NW of Moulins, near the departmental border with Cher

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins

Historical Region: Pays de Lévis en bocage bourbonnais

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

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 495283 5175193

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.730276, 2.938263

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 43′ 49″ N, 2° 56′ 17.75″ 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