Cognac
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Scene Description: Source caption: "une vue du baptistère st-Leger de Cognac." -- the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G. Garitan, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 9 January 2016 by G. Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptistère_st-Leger_09918.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Léger de Cognac (Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paralacre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 7 August 2014 by Paralacre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Léger_(Cognac)_07.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Léger de Cognac (Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paralacre, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 7 August 2014 by Paralacre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Léger_(Cognac)_08.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2022]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Léger à Cognac"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jacques Le Letty, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2014 by Jacques Le Letty [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cognac_St_Leger.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Léger (Cognac)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 26 August 2021 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cognac,_Église_Saint-Léger.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2022]
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view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: Source caption: "une vue du baptistère st-Leger de Cognac."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G. Garitan, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 9 January 2016 by G. Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptistère_st-Leger_09915.JPG] [accessed 12 August 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02511COG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [Enlart], Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne prieurale des bénédictins] Saint-Léger
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104309]: "La façade offre un bel exemple d'architecture du 12e siècle. La porte principale est remarquable par la richesse de son ornementation. La voussure supérieure porte les signes du Zodiaque et les travaux des différents mois de l'année. Frises et chapiteaux sont également ornés. Le reste de l'édifice date des 14e et 15e siècles."
Church Address: rue Aristide Briand, 16100 Cognac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 45 82 05 71
Site Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D48 and the river, N of the N141, about 37 km W of Angoulême
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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"Cuves ... sans support, selon le modele antique" (Chastel, 1966, p. 287). Enlart (1902) lists it in a group of octagonal unmounted fonts. [NB: the baptismal font in the parish church of Saimt-Leger is modern, probably 19th-century]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 708062 5063681
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.695419, -0.327579
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 41′ 43.51″ N, 0° 19′ 39.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966, p. 287
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 773, footnote 1