Saint-Geniez-o-Merle / Geniès-las-Costas / Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle / Soult

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: ruins of the medieval church -- the view of the inside surface of the west wall and tower show the Gothic portal embedded in an earlier (Romanesque?) frame

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle_Vieux-Bourg_église_(4).JPG] [accessed 13 March 2017]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: ruins of the medieval church

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle_Vieux-Bourg_église_(3).JPG] [accessed 13 March 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: ruins of the medieval church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle_Vieux-Bourg_église.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the late-19thC church built in Soult to replace the Eglise du Vieux Bourg (Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ericargs, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Ericargs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EgliseStGeniezAuMerle.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2017]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: looking into the ruined interior of the medieval church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle_Vieux-Bourg_église_portail_(1).JPG] [accessed 13 March 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21115GEN
Church/Chapel: Eglise du Vieux Bourg (Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle) [in ruins]
Church Location: 19220 Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle, France [NB: the coordinates for the modern church are: DMS: 45° 4′ 57.73″ N, 2° 3′ 45.05″ E -- Decimal: 45.082702, 2.062513 -- UTM: 31T 426218 4992565 ]
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D111, NNW of Tours-de-Merle, E of Argentat, SE of Tulle, ESE of Brive-la-Gaillarde [NB: there is no "bourg de Saint-Geniez-ô-Merle" proper, the location being locally known as 'Soult', where the modern church is located]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Pays de la Xaintrie, Limousin
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: ruins of the medieval church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099861]; much of the 14thC church, which had been abandoned in 1920, collapsed into ruins gradually afterwards; only the bell tower remains standing "sauvé de la ruine par les habitants".
[NB: we have no information on the font of the abandoned church of the Romanesque period]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.069857, 2.083143
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 4′ 11.48″ N, 2° 4′ 59.32″ E
UTM: 31T 427826 4991120