Saint-Leger-des-Bois / Beauchêne / Saint-Léger-des-Bois / Saint Ligier / Sancto Ligério / Sanctus Léodégarius
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: the 19thC church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Labiloute, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2015 by Labiloute [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stléger03.JPG] [accessed 23 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20676LEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Léger de Saint-Léger-des-Bois
Font Location in Church: [destroyed?]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Notes: present church is 19thC, a re-building of the original 13thC destroyed by fire
Church Address: 9 rue du Lavoir / rue des Rochettes, 49170 Saint-Léger-des-Bois, France -- Tel.: +33241395536
Site Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D102-D105 crossroads, 12-13 km W of Angers [NB: merged into the new commune Saint-Léger-de-Linières in 2019]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angers
Additional Comments: disappeared / dsetroyed font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here; it may have been destroyed in the 19th-century fire]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 672650 5258750
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.459297, -0.709297
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 27′ 33.47″ N, 0° 42′ 33.47″ W