Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac
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Image Source: wood engraving by Léo Drouyn [signed "D"] in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 102)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 12 arches - Gothic arches
Scene Description: Three on each side of the square basin
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Image Source: wood engraving by Léo Drouyn [signed "D"] in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 102)
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design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: a double row on the outside; single row on the inside
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Image Source: wood engraving by Léo Drouyn [signed "D"] in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 102)
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symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle - 2
Scene Description: on one of the sides of the basin, in the spandrels of the arches
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Image Source: wood engraving by Léo Drouyn [signed "D"] in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 102)
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2010 by Père Igor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_portail.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2010 by Père Igor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2010 by Père Igor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_(1).JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![notice the holy-water stoup [cf. FontNotes] at the far [west] end, to the left [south] of the west doorway](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131207045_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice the holy-water stoup [cf. FontNotes] at the far [west] end, to the left [south] of the west doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2010 by Père Igor [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_nefs_(1).JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2010 by Père Igor [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_nef_principale.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of church interior - north aisle - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2010 by Père Igor [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_nef_collatérale.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of font or stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2010 by Père Igor [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac_église_bénitier.JPG] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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view of font or stoup
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131207038_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/IMG/jpg/72_24_447_6_651a.jpg] [accessed 7 December 2013]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03508CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00082866]: "Au 12e siècle, l'église se composait d'une nef non voûtée de deux travées, d'un choeur surmonté d'un clocher carré, et d'une abside semi-circulaire. Entre 1340 et 1400, fortification de l'édifice avec suppression de l'abside et fermeture du choeur par un chevet plat. Le clocher est pourvu d'un étage défensif accessible par un étroit escalier en vis. La nef reçoit également un niveau défensif communicant avec le clocher. Le portail occidental est rétréci et la façade renforcée d'un ouvrage de modillons. Au 16e siècle, l'église est agrandie d'un bas-côté nord à deux travées voûtées d'ogives. Restaurations aux 18e et 19e siècles."
Church Address: 24330 Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac, France
Site Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D6089, SW of Périgeux
Historical Region: Périgord Blanc
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Van Drival (1858) [cf. infra]. Corblet (1881-1882) describes this font as having a square basin with three Ogee arches on each side); his illustration (ibid.) shows the upper rim sides -inner and outer- decorated with a row of saw-tooth motif -the outer has a double row; on one of the basin sides, in the spandrels of the arcade, there are two encircled Greek crosses; the inner well of this font appears square [NB: the original wood engraving was done by Léo Drouyn for 'Etude sur les fonts baptismaux', an article by revd. E. Van Drival, in the Revue de l’art chrétien (1858, t.2: 209)]. Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/fonts-baptismaux-de-l-eglise-notre-dame-de-l-assomption] [accessed 7 December 2013] notes: "L’église Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac possède des fonts baptismaux du XIIe siècle [...] La cuve des fonts baptismaux de l’église de Sainte-Marie-de-Chignac est un bassin de forme arrondie avec rebord, disposé sur un pied circulaire, le tout reposant sur un bloc carré en pierre." This is accompanied by a photograph of a holy-water stoup totally different from the font illustrated in Corblet [cf. supra]; it is a holy-water stoup located inside the church, at the west end of the nave, just consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with a thick roll moulding at the upper rim, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a square lower base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 329340 4999894
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.1319, 0.8297
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 7′ 54.84″ N, 0° 49′ 46.92″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 125 and ill. on p. 102
- Van Drival, Eugène (abbé), "Étude sur les Fonts Baptismaux", 2, Revue de l'Art Chrétien, 1858, pp. 18, 97, 157, 204; t. 2: 209