Saint-Gervasy nr. Nîmes
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Scene Description: the 19th-century font
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Image Source: Numérisation à partir du tirage photographique 30W00995; in Mémoire [ref.: AP30W00995] [accessed 27 February 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19105GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissial de Saint-Gervasy
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): [orig. St. Felix?]
Church Notes: probably a priory (?) church here before a 12thC reconstruction; damaged by Tuchins in 1382; re-built; damaged by Calvinists in 1560; restored and expanded in 18th-20thC
Church Address: 30320 Saint-Gervasy, France
Site Location: Gard, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D6086, S of A9/E15 [aka La Languedocienne], 3 km from Cabrières, 12 km NE of Nîmes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nîmes
Historical Region: Nîmes Métropole
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / destroyed font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The present stone font in this church is modern, decorated with a scene of the Temptation and Fall. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM30000302]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original (?) 12th-century church here].
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UTM: 31T 618033 4859405