Verrines-sous-Celles nr. Celles-sur-Belle / Prieuré Saint-Maixent de Verrines

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2008 by Bachelot Pierre J-P [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint_Maixent_de_Verrines_sous_Celles_(France).JPG] [accessed 27 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital image in Art roman modillons chapiteaux et peintures [https://sites.google.com/site/modillonsetpeinturesromanes/Saintonge/3-deux-sevres/verrines-sous-celles-abbaye-saint-maixent] [accessed 27 May 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20571VER

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Elgise paroissiale Saint-Maixent de Verrines [formerly Prieuré Saint-Maixent de Verrines]

Church Location: 13 rue de la Cure Verrines, 79370 Celles-sur-Belle - France

Country Name: France

Location: Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Verrines... is located SW of Celles-sur-Belle, itself 17km SE of Niort

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque

Church Notes: a 1078 document attests to the tonation of a church here to the abbaye de Saint-Maixent; church badly damaged by fire 1569; restoration work docemented 1666 and 1728; sold in the Revolution; listed as historical monument in 1840; bought by Charles Pontonnier de la Girardière in 1846; "En 1998, l'association diocésaine de Poitiers vend l'église à la commune de Verrines" [dossier: Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel de la Région Poitou-Charentes (2002) -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00101207]: "Eglise romane dont il ne subsiste plus que le choeur et le transept. Nef détruite à la Révolution. Chapiteaux historiés."

Font Notes: Click to view

[NB: we have no information on the font of the original church here]