Arnac-Pompadour No. 2 / Pompador / Pompedor

INFORMATION

FontID: 20907POM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Chapelle paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Saint-Blaise
Church Patron Saints: St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]
Church Location: place Saint-Blaise, 19230 Arnac-Pompadour, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D126, between Luberzac (N) and Lascaux (S), 25 km SE of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, 35 km WNW of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Date: ca. 1158?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church Notes: documented by 1158 as chapel-of-ease to Arnac's; became collegial church 1503, and by 1592 had a secular prior, eight canons and two perpetual clerics, with daily masses [source: Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de La Corrèze (Vol. 15, 1893: 45)]
Font Notes:
The church was restored in 2005 with mutal paintings by André Brasilier; at the same time, "le mobilier liturgique a fait l’objet d’une création originale de Jacques Dieudonné". [NB: we have no information on the font of the ca. 1158 church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 373353 5028349