Cheylade No. 1 / Chaszlada
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coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Denis Trente-Huittessan, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2013 by Denis Trente-Huittessan [www.flickr.com/photos/89235234@N00/10541346856/] [accessed 1 February 2014]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the corners
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Denis Trente-Huittessan, 2013
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Françoise Thurion, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2005 by Françoise Thurion [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheylade_eglise.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2014]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Szeder László, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2007 by Szeder László [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FR-15-Cheylade2.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julien Thurion, 2005
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Françoise Thurion, 2005
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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Scene Description: the odd canopy is provided with a locked metal gate for access to the inner well of the font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the late-19thC baptistery door has a scene of the Baptism of Christ
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02832CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léger
Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Location: 15400 Cheylade, France
Country Name: France
Location: Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: In the Parc regional de volcans d'Auvergne; follow the D678 from Mauriac to Riom-es-Montagnes; there take the D3 for 7.5 kms to the D62 south following the Vallee de Cheylade; Cheylade itself is about 4 kms down that road.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Saint-Flour
Historical Region: Pays de Gentiane
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: original church dedicated to Saint Léger, early-11thC [1029?]; replaced by present 12thC church altered in the 15th and 17thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093496]: "De l'église romane, qui comprenait une nef et deux collatéraux, ne subsiste que l'abside terminée par un mur droit, une travée de choeur et deux absidioles voûtées en cul-de-four. L'édifice fut ravagé une première fois par les Anglais ; les voûtes de la nef et des bas-côtés s'effondrèrent. Les travaux de réparation furent réalisés au 15e siècle, et construits les chapelles, le porche de deux travées qui supporte le clocher et le pignon occidental. Au 16e siècle, reprise des travaux avec élévation des quatre piliers circulaires avec l'intention de rétablir les voûtes en maçonnerie. Mais au cours des guerres de Religion, les toitures furent incendiées. Au 18e siècle, les nefs sont terminées en les couvrant d'une voûte en bois surbaissée. La voûte est divisée en caissons au moyen de moulures rapportées. La nef compte 560 caissons, et les collatéraux 400, tous décorés de peintures naïves représentant des fleurs, des animaux fantastiques, des angelots et les armoiries des familles du pays. Dans l'abside romane rectangulaire, voûtée en berceau, subsistent quatre colonnettes dont les chapiteaux ont un caractère très archaïque."
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1902) mentions a High Gothic wooden cover on the font at Cheylade, but the cover or canopy on this font appears to be stone and constructional. The font consists of a square basin with widely chamfered corners that turn it into an octagonal shape, the angles decorated with multiple stacked mouldings; on the front side of the basin is a shield charged with a coat of arms or emblem; raised on a splaying octagonal-to-round pedestal base and a crude round lower base. The canopy, which appears to be constructional, is roughly pyramidal and ends in a large stone cross finial; the front side has an opening provided with a lockable metal gate for access to the inner well of the font. The whole is an odd design for a font, reminding one more of a rural communal wood-burning oven. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM15000162] as a damaged font [="oeuvre mutilée"] of the 15th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.208333, 2.715556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 12′ 30″ N, 2° 42′ 56″ E
UTM: 31T 477663 5006133
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, trachyte (volcanic stone)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: High Gothic
Material: wood
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902