Saint-Martin Valmeroux / Sanctus Martinus de Valle Marant

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INFORMATION
FontID: 21098VAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 2-14 rue de l'Eglise, 15140 Saint-Martin-Valmeroux, France -- Tel.: (Presbytère): +33 4 71 69 20 63
Country Name: France
Location: Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque? / Gothic?
Church Notes: possible 12thC church built on the site of an earlier pagan temple; 13thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093650]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
45.117817,
2.427564
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
45° 7′ 4.14″ N,
2° 25′ 39.23″ E
UTM: 31T 454976 4996198