Villeneuve-sur-Yonne / Villeneuve-le-Roy

***PROBLEM: APPEARS TO BE THE SAME AS THE STOUP LISTED AS VILLENEUVE-LE-ROI*** Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy stoup in "Villeneuve-le-Roy (Yonne)", which appears to have been the name used in the past for this locality. Described in Barraud (1870): polygonal basin inside and out, mounted on a pillar, with an elegant canopy above; Barraud (ibid.) describes the decoration as Ogee arches, and a "multitude des petits édifices, ce qui fait donner à ces sortes de dais le nombre de Jérusalem céleste". Chastel (1966), does mention a holy-water stoup here, raised on a base adorned with a moulding "porte par un culot, simplement moulure". The church web page [www.catholique-sens-auxerre.cef.fr/eglises/villeneuvesyonne.htm] [accessed 5 March 2013], corroborates the use of 'Villeneuve-le-Roy' for this town in the past, and informs that the first stone of the original church here was laid by pope Alexander III, who was at the time exiled here by the emperor; it further reports a beautiful 13th-century holy-water stoup, now in a very deteriorated state. The dabase Palissy [ref.: PM89001661] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr?] [accessed 5 March 2013] describes the listed stoup also as 13th-century, canopy representing a fortress ["bénitier, dais d'architecture [...] Le dais représente une forteresse"]. The decoration mentioned in the sources above refers to the canopy mounted on the pillar, above the actual stoup; the lower part consists of a series of trefoiled arch-heads, on which rises the the fortress-like construction. The stoup below is a rather unremarkable polygonal basin decorated with simple mouldings and mounted on the same pillar. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].