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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Priest de Volvic."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - capital

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Image Source: digital image of an udated [pre-1923] B&W photograph [LP008170] by Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis, in Mémoire [ref.: APLP008170][https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APLP008170] [accessed 6 April 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Volvic, Puy-de-Dôme, France [...] Eglise. Choeur."

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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00035240] of an undated negative [MH0035240] by Camille Enlart, in the Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_-_Choeur_-_Volvic_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00035240.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23864VOL
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Priest de Volvic
Church Patron Saints: St. Priest [aka Praejectus, Prejectus, Projectus, Pry]
Church Location: 20 pl. de l'Église, 63530 Volvic, France
Country Name: France
Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne / Languedoc-Roussillon
Directions to Site: Located off the D986A, 6 km WSW of Riom, 11 km NNW of Clermont-Ferrand
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Clermont
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original monastery(?) late-7thC; 12thC church; re-built 19thC; restored early-29thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092480]
The entry for Volvic in Terra Volcana [https://www.terravolcana.com/patrimoine-culturel/eglise-saint-priest/] [accessed 6 April 2022] reports a modern baptismal font of 1959 in this church [="Fonts baptismaux réalisés en lave très fine par René Fontanel en 1959 sur un plan d'étude de Fernand Auteroche"]. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.8724, 3.03839
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 52′ 20.64″ N, 3° 2′ 18.2″ E
UTM: 31T 502979 5079871