Soursac / Sorçac / Soursac-Moustier

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 7 March 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eglises de Corrèze, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 7 March 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Bastien, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Pierre Bastien [www.communes.com/limousin/correze/soursac_19550/photos,301212.html] [accessed 7 March 2017]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font at the west end of the nave appears now disused, re-cycled as planter

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Bastien, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2015 by Pierre Bastien [www.communes.com/limousin/correze/soursac_19550/photos,301211.html] [accessed 7 March 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21086SOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Julien
Church Patron Saints: St. Julianus
Church Location: 19550 Soursac, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D166, between Egletons (NW) and Mauriac (SE), SW of Ussel, E of Tulle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: four churches reported here since the 6thC: "Dès le VIe siècle, il existait quatre églises à Soursac, comme en témoigne le testament de sainte Théodechilde, petite-fille de Clovis, qui en fit don à son monastère de Mauriac. Seule est restée la paroisse actuelle." Present church (?) documented in 1091 as a donation to Aureil; re-built 15thC; re-built 19thC [source: Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 7 March 2017]]
The present church houses a tub-shaped stone font at the west end of the nave, on the south side of the west entranceway; it appears to be disused now, re-cycled as a planter; there is also a holy-water stoup by the side of the south doorway, but it appears modern [NB: we have no information on any of the fonts of the earlier churches here].