Saint-Germain-les-Vergnes / Bruyère-les-Vergnes et Germain-la-Bruyère / Germain-la-Bruyère / Saint-Germain-lez-Vergnes / Sent German las Vèrnhas

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the panel on the modern font

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 24 March 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the bell tower of the church is visible in the background, to the right of the central tree

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © lacorreze.com, 2017

Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard in lacorreze.com [www.lacorreze.com/cartes_postales/anciennes/villages/autres_villages3/stgerm_vern.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font

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 24 March 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21117GER
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain-d'Auxerre
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: 19330 Saint-Germain-les-Vergnes, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D9-D44 confluence, S of the A20-A89 crossroads, 13 km W of Tulle, 18 km NE of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Carolingian
Church Notes: original church documented in late-9th or early 10thC [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k28999p/texteBrut] [accessed 24 March 2017] -- Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 24 March 2017]notes: "Comme ses voisines de Saint-Maixent, Chanteix et Saint-Bonnet-l’Enfantier, l’église appartenait, à l’époque carolingienne, à l’abbaye de Solignac. La construction actuelle date des XIV e et XV e siècles"
Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 24 March 2017] notes: "Le mobilier comporte une cuve baptismale en granit"; the present font, illustrated in this web site, has a roughly bucket-shaped basin with a large square carved panel inscribed with the date 'I906' (?), a Latin cross on a mound and two tear-shaped (?) symbols; tapering round stem and circular lower base with two thick roll mouldings; no cover present. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Carolingian church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.2747, 1.6358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 16′ 28.92″ N, 1° 38′ 8.88″ E
UTM: 31T 392995 5014372