Varetz / Varès / Varitium
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view of church exterior - west porch and portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varetz_église_porche.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varetz_église.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - capital
![Source caption: "A l'intérieur, un chapiteau présente [...] une composition singulière : une tête de lion monumentale, à l’angle de la corbeille, domine un homme accroupi dans une position acrobatique."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170416037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "A l'intérieur, un chapiteau présente [...] une composition singulière : une tête de lion monumentale, à l’angle de la corbeille, domine un homme accroupi dans une position acrobatique."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eglises de Corrèze, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 16 April 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "A l'intérieur, un chapiteau présente un décor végétal." It has a lion at each angle with palmette-shaped vegetation stemming from the mouths.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eglises de Corrèze, 2017
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 16 April 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21194VAR
Object Type: Other
Object Details: sarcophagus, medieval
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Julien-de-Brioude
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Julian of Brioude [3rd cent. martyr] [aka St. Julien d'Auvergne]
Church Notes: original church 12thC
Church Address: place Charles de Gaulle, 19240 Varetz, France
Site Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D133, NW of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Additional Comments: re-cycled font? (a child sarcophagus of the 13thC re-used as font in the 16thC) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The web site Castel Comtal [http://limousin-marche.forumactif.com/t13898-sim-ayen-varetz] [accessed 16 April 2017] mentions a 13th-century child sarcophagus that was re-cycled as baptismal font 300 years later: "un sarcophage d'enfant noble sculpté du XIIIème siècle qui aurait été utilisé trois siècles plus tard comme fonds baptismaux". News of the discovery of an early sarcophage in this church appeared in La Montagne edition of 3 May 2012 [www.lamontagne.fr/varetz/loisirs/art-litterature/2012/05/03/le-sarcophage-millenaire-retrouve-son-eglise_1158311.html] [accessed 16 April 2017], but it refers to a 6th-7th century female sarcophagus found during the works in the interior of the church at the time: "Après analyses par des spécialistes, une datation haute a été définie, certainement entre le VII e et VIII e siècle. Ce sarcophage trapézoïdal en grès jaunâtre en grains fins contenait un squelette qui a été étudié par l'anthropologue Jacques Roger, serait celui d'une personne de sexe féminin de par le sillon pré auriculaire marqué." [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 378406 5005639
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.19375, 1.452
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 11′ 37.5″ N, 1° 27′ 7.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular