Meillers
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
![haloed figure on the left wering a cape (?); an indigent on the right [St. Martin sharing his cape with poor man?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170526023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: haloed figure on the left wering a cape (?); an indigent on the right [St. Martin sharing his cape with poor man?]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: armed horseman to the left of the possible St. Martin's scene
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Meillers - Église Saint-Julien - Portail - Chapiteau des animaux musiciens : un âne jouant de la harpe".
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Meillers - Église Saint-Julien - Portail - Chapiteau des animaux musiciens : un lion jouant de la viole".
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Meillers - Église Saint-Julien - Tympan - Christ bénissant dans une gloire ovale soutenue par deux anges".
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view of church interior - capital
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2008 by Rensi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inneres_der_Kirche_Saint-Julien_in_Meillers.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - west end - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Meilers - Église Saint-Julien - Console au revers de la façade".
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the mid-19thC (?) font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Marie-Elisabeth Bruel, in Mémoire [NUMI 20070300197NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2644/ivr83_20070300197nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2017]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: one of a pair of wall-mounted sandstone stoups dating probably to the 18thC
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Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2007 by Marie-Elisabeth Bruel, in Mémoire [NUMI 20070300192NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2644/ivr83_20070300192nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21241MEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne priorale et paroissiale du prieuré de Meillers] Saint-Julien de Meillers
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian [of Brioude?]
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the D11-D18-D58-D106-D293 roads, E of Gipcy, WSW of Souvigny and Moulins
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins [formerly in the Diocèse de Bourges]
Historical Region: Le Bocage Bourbonnais -- Auvergne
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Early Romanesque
Church Notes: originally 10th-11thC Benedictine priory; re-built 12thC; expanded late-15thC; restored mid-19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093157 / IA03000096]: "L'édifice présente deux époques de construction, le 10e et le 12e siècle. Les parties les plus anciennes sont celles constituées des piliers carrés, avec des colonnes aux chapiteaux byzantins. Le portail présente trois colonnes à larges chapiteaux. Le tympan présente le Christ au milieu des douze apôtres."
Font Notes:
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The present sandstone baptismal font, listed in Palissy [ref.: IM03000463] is dated ca. 1862; the same source reports two holy-water stoups of the 18th-19th century [NB: we have no information on the batismal font of the 10th-11th century here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.506667, 3.093056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 30′ 24″ N, 3° 5′ 35″ E
UTM: 31T 507139 5150348