Ourouer / Ourouër
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Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux? [...] Bénitier en forme de mortier"
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Image Source: digital photograph by Franck Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L011297] [accessed 7 April 2025]
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![Source caption: "fonts baptismaux? [...] Bénitier en forme de mortier"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250407003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux? [...] Bénitier en forme de mortier"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph by Franck Genestoux [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L011296] [accessed 7 April 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03547OUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Fiacre d'Ourouër
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Fiacre [aka Fiachra]
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112980]: "12e siècle"
Church Address: Le Bourg, 58130 Vaux d'Amognes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 86 37 30 79
Site Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D26, about 15 km NE of Nevers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers
Font Notes:
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Listed by Corblet (1881-1882) simply as being a 15th-century font. No listing found for this font in Palissy, which lists a 16th-century stoup in it with the caption "fonts baptismaux? [...] Bénitier en forme de mortier" [Palissy ref.: PM58000808]. The stoup(?) is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L011296, AP80L011297]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 523256 5211796
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.059273, 3.306236
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 3′ 33.38″ N, 3° 18′ 22.45″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 132
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.