Aubazine No. 2 / Coiroux / Coyroux / Obasina / Obazine
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les ruines du monastère du Coyroux, Aubazines, Corrèze, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aubazines_monastère_Coiroux_vestiges.JPG] [accessed 29 January 2017]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Les ruines du monastère du Coyroux, Aubazines, Corrèze, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 June 2009 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aubazines_monastère_Coiroux_vestiges_(3).JPG] [accessed 29 January 2017]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 20910AUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise de l'ancien monastère du Coyroux [aka Coiroux] [in ruins]
Church Location: 19190 Aubazine, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D1089, just S of Cornil, N of Palazinges, 10 km ENE of Brive-la-Gaillarde, 12 km SW Tulle [NB: the site of the female monastery of Coyroux was only 500-600 m from the male one in Aubazine]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Date: ca. 1142?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church Notes: mid-12thC monastery church listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099661]: "Ancien monastère de femmes fondé en 1142 et rattaché à l'ordre cistercien en 1147, en activité jusqu'en 1790. Il comptait 150 moniales à la fin du 12e siècle, et dépendait de l'abbaye d'Aubazine [...] L'église des 12e-13e siècle, de plan rectangulaire".
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the mid-12th century church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.1705, 1.6788
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 10′ 13.8″ N, 1° 40′ 43.68″ E
UTM: 31T 396179 5002740