Saint-Martin Valmeroux / Sanctus Martinus de Valle Marant
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior in context - east view
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view of stoup in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21098VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque? / Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: possible 12thC church built on the site of an earlier pagan temple; 13thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093650]
Church Address: 2-14 rue de l'Eglise, 15140 Saint-Martin-Valmeroux, France -- Tel.: (Presbytère): +33 4 71 69 20 63
Site Location: Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D37-D922 crossroads, N of Saint-Chamant, in the Maronne valley, SE of Mauriac
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint Flour
Historical Region: Pays de Salers
Font Notes:
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The earliest reference we found to a baptismal font here appears in Déribier Du Châtelet's Dictionnaire statistique du département du Cantal, 1856, vol. 4 , p. 160, as "dignes d'attention". Paul Joanne's guide to Auvergne et Centre (Paris, 1886) entry for this village (p. 128) notes: "fonts baptismaux et lutrin décorés de sculptures remarquables" in its church, expanding on what had already been noted in the Laurent Joanne's Dictionnaire géographique, administratif, postal, statistique, archéologique [...] (Paris, 1869). Pierre Moulier's biography of bishop Frédéric de Marguerye (Cantal, 2008) mentions an episcopal visit to the church here on 29 April 1841 recommends that the baptismal font be moved to the back of the church. [NB: we have no further information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 454976 4996198
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.117817, 2.427564
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 7′ 4.14″ N, 2° 25′ 39.23″ E