Sainte-Fereole / Montagne-Frimaire / Montfrimaire / Sainte-Féréole
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view of church exterior - south view
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 13 March 2017]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: diagonally across the nave and two aisles
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 13 March 2017]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: dated 1751
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 2005
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2003 by Stéphane Lefevre, in Mémoire [NUMI 03190344XA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0867/ivr74_03190344xa_p.jpg] [accessed 13 March 2017]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21112FER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin de Tours à Sainte-Féréole
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: original 12thC church; much damaged in the Hundred-Years War and in the 16thC Wars of Religion; restored 17thC;
Church Address: 7 Place de l'Eglise, 19270 Sainte-Féréole, France -- Tel.: 09 62 24 95 50
Site Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D25, 10 km NE of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Notes:
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The local on-line news La Montagne [http://www.lamontagne.fr/limousin/actualite/departement/correze/correze-local/2013/06/29/garder-la-memoire-de-ses-pretres_1574290.html] [accessed 13 March 2017] informs about the completed renovations in the parish church of Saint Martin de Sainte-Féréole, which included the baptismal font. [NB: this font appears to be the same object listed in Palissy [ref.: PM19001050] as a carved stone holy-water stoup of 1751 in this church -- the object is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: IVR74_20031900344XA, AP19W02225] and can be seen in the context of the church interior in a digital photograph taken 26 February 2020 by Marianne Casamance, in Wikimedia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:02-26_Sainte_Féréole_-_chapelle_latérale_église.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2025] with the caption: "église Saint-Martin-de-Tours de Sainte-Féréole : Vierge à l'Enfant et bénitier inscrits en tant qu'objet monument historique."]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 388756 5009329
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.228658, 1.5829
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 13′ 43.17″ N, 1° 34′ 58.44″ E
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR74_20031900344XA] [accessed 13 October 2025]