Murat-le-Quaire
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonds [sic] baptismaux en pierre de Volvic de l'église Saint-Maurice de Murat-le-Quaire (Puy-de-Dôme)."
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2014 by Tangopaso [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_fonts_of_the_church_of_Murat-le-Quaire.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Façade de l'église Saint-Maurice de Murat-le-Quaire (Puy-de-Dôme)."
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 24 August 2014 by Tangopaso [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Façade_de_l'église_de_Murat-le-Quaire.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef de l'église Saint-Maurice de Murat-le-Quaire (Puy-de-Dôme)."
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 24 August 2014 by Tangopaso [https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_de_l'église_de_Murat-le-Quaire.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24139MUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Maurice
Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Location: Le Bourg, 63150 Murat-le-Quaire, France -- Tel.: 04 73 65 53 13
Country Name: France
Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the D922, 35-40 km SW of Clermont-Ferrand
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Clermont
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church Notes: 13thC church in ruins during the Revolution; restored 19thC, completed 1902
Font Notes:
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Noted in Massif du Sancy [https://www.sancy.com/fr/fiche/patrimoine-culturel/eglise-saint-maurice-murat-le-quaire_TFO4636927/] [accessed 23 July 2022]: "une imposante cuve baptismale en pierre de Volvic creusée dans la masse". Only the roughly hemispherical basin remains; it is plain but for a very broad flat moulding all around; stands on a squat quadrangular plinth. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.597177, 2.73459
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 35′ 49.84″ N, 2° 44′ 4.52″ E
UTM: 31T 479300 5049327
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, trachyandesite
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining