Arnac-Pompadour No. 2 / Pompador / Pompedor

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20907POM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1158?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Chapelle paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Saint-Blaise
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]
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)]
Church Address: place Saint-Blaise, 19230 Arnac-Pompadour, France
Site Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1158 church here)
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