Graffouillere / Graffouillère / Graffouliere / Graffoulière / Grafouillère / Grafoulière

INFORMATION

Font ID: 21016GRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martial [disappeared]

Font Location in Church: [disappeared]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martial

Church Notes: a parish church reported here in the Middle Ages

Church Address: La Graffouillère, 19190 Ménoire, France

Site Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe

Directions to Site: La Graffoulière is located off the D169-D940 crossroads, 2-3 km NW of Ménoire, about 15 km S of Tulle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]

Historical Region: Limousin

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the disappeared medieval church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

In its entry for Ménoire, Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 21 February 2017] notes: "Au village de la Graffoulière existait au moyen âge une seconde église paroissiale, dédiée à saint Martial qui aurait fait halte près de la fontaine miraculeuse portant son nom." [NB: we have no information on the font from that parish church].

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UTM: 31T 405109 4994922