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Image Source: woodcur by Drouyn in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 127)
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: Several differently shaped in the spandrels and upper spaces of the basin sides
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Image Source: woodcut by Léo Drouyn for E. Van Drival, 1858
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - round arches
Scene Description: Two on each basin side
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Image Source: woodcut by Léo Drouyn for E. Van Drival, 1858
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view of church exterior - southwest view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 June 2011 by BSI
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: engraving by Léo Drouyn in 'Variétés girondines ou [...]", 1878
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03514COU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2011-06-20
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Christophe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Christopher
Church Address: 33760 Courpiac, France
Site Location: Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Targon, arrondissement of Langon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bordeaux
Historical Region: Entre-deux-Mers -- Le Targonnais
Additional Comments: The church was closed at the time of our visit (20 June 2011), as were the Mairie and all other sources of information in the village. A local informed us that the church was closed permanently due to the deterioration inside.
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated by Léo Drouyn (1858) and later in Van Drival (1878). Described and illustrated in Corblet (1881-1882) -who uses Drouyn's woodcut of 1858- as an unmounted square font; the sides of the basin have a double round arch, the space above the arches ornamented with quatrefoils; the well of the basin appears round. The Mérimée database [réf. PM33000472] describes this font as being in the Romanesque style and dates it to the 12th century [NB: the church building is listed in the Mérimée database [ref. no.: PA00083526] as originally of the 11th or 12th century -south portal with historiated capitals- and renovated and expanded in the 16th and 19th centuries]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 723114 4959693
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.755419, -0.182096
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 45′ 19.51″ N, 0° 10′ 55.55″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 127
- Drouyn, Léo, "Variétés girondines ou essai historique et archéologique sur la partie du diocèse de Bazas renfermé entre la Garonne et la Dordogne", 3e série, 39-40, Actes de l'Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de BordeauxActes de l'Académie nationale des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Bordeaux, 1878, pp. 165-418; vol. 1: 428
- Van Drival, Eugène (abbé), "Étude sur les Fonts Baptismaux", 2, Revue de l'Art Chrétien, 1858, pp. 18, 97, 157, 204; vol. 2: 208