Montaigu Montaigu-Vendée

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "des fonts baptismaux, retrouvés au village des "Ahayes" de Saint-André-Treize-Voies."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Maurice Mignet, [2023]

Image Source: edited detail of an illustration in Maurice Mignet's Montaigu en Vendée: patrimoine et histoire [https://montaigu-en-vendee.fr/index.php?page=faubourg-st-nicolas] [accessed 31 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20586MON
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Nicolas, Montaigu [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 12 rue Saint-Jean, 85602 Montaigu, France
Country Name: France
Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: The site of the disappeared church is located off the confluence of the D137, D753 and D763, in the arr. of La Roche-sur-Yon, in the new village of Montaigu-Vendée [since 2010], 25-30 km SE of Nantes -- the disappeared church was in the Faubourg Saint-Nicolas, outside the town walls, across the Maine river
Historical Region: Terres de Montaigu
Font Location in Church: [not in a church -- cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringng this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: present 19thC church built on the site of the ruins of the earlier church demolished 1863 [the church had been destroyed in the Revolution]
The information below on the disappeared parish church of the Faubourg Saint-Nicolas in Montaigu-Vendée has been based on Maurice Mignet's Montaigu en Vendée: patrimoine et histoire [https://montaigu-en-vendee.fr/index.php?page=faubourg-st-nicolas] [accessed 31 July 2023]. A parish and its "église Saint-Nicolas" is documented by 1182; the church was burned down by Protestants; in 1782 had a stone belfry that was destroyed in October 1793 by Kléber's orders; the ruins of the church were sold in 1798; Mignet notes that the ruined remains of the church disappeared in 1811 during the construction of a new road from Montaigu to Roche-sur-Yon, with some vestiges being re-used in town, and the baptismal font to the "Ahayes" de Saint-André-Treize-Voies"; Mignet includes several photographs of a stone basin in that locality [cf. ImagesArea]; from these photographs it can be described as tub-shaped, plain, with the upper rim indentation for a cover, and damage to the rim side. [NB: Les Ahayes de Saint-André-Treize-Voies, in the municipality of Montréverd, are 9-10 km from Montaigu].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 628652 5203619

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round