Brive-la-Gaillarde No. 3 / Briva Curretia / Brives-la-Gaillarde
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view of church interior - crypt
Scene Description: housing the former church (Palaeochristian, later Carolingian?)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20490BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: [former church of the Carolingian period]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: place Charles de Gaulle, 19100 Brives-la-Gaillarde, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located 25 km SW of Tulle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the crypt
Century and Period: 9th century, Carolingian
Font Notes:
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Archaeological digs of 1986-1988 unearthed a funeral chapel believed to have been part of a Merovingian necropolis here, but also evidence of a later period, including a baptismal basin of about 100 cm in diameter, this latter evidence showing characteristics of the Carolingian period. [source: Geneviève Cantié, Xavier Lhermite, Évelyne Proust - Brive-la-Gaillarde, église Saint-Martin. De la Memoria mérovingienne à la collégiale - p. 105-123, in Congrès archéologique de France. 163e session. Corrèze. 2005 (Paris: Société Française d'Archéologie, 2007)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.15889, 1.53306
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 9′ 32″ N, 1° 31′ 59.02″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]