Ussel / Usser
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 21192USS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin d'Ussel
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: 13thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099938]: "Edifice de la fin du 13e siècle, composé d'une nef avec transept et choeur à chevet plat. A l'origine, l'édifice présentait une nef de deux travées carrées voûtées d'ogives, un transept, un choeur et deux petites chapelles sur les bras du transept. Après un incendie en 1472, deux bas-côtés furent ajoutés, ainsi qu'une petite chapelle à l'extrémité nord du transept. En 1862, Viollet-le-Duc restaura l'église et construisit un clocher porche."
Church Address: 2 Rue de l'Église, 19200 Ussel, France -- Tel.: +33 5 55 72 11 34
Site Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the D45-D157-D159-D982 confluence, about 50 km NE of Tulle and about 70 km NE of Brive-la-Gaillarde, about the same distance ESE of Limoges
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the 13th-century church here] -- [NB: was La Tourette a separate parish earlier? was the present chapel a medieval church with a font?]