Celles-sur-Belle / Celles-s-Belle
Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2015 by Lola Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: the former abbey church in the grounds of the Abbaye royale Notre-Dame de Celles-sur-Belle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2015 by Lola Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2015 by Lola Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 30 September 2015 by Lola Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Rodríguez, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2015 by Lola Rodríguez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 26 May 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 03657CEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale, Abbaye royale Notre-Dame]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 79370 Celles-sur-Belle, France
Country Name: France
Location: Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Celles[-s-Belle] is located 17km SE of Niort
Historical Region: Poitou-Charentes
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lola Rodríguez for her photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 11thC Augustinian priory became abbey 1134-1140; re-built late-15thC; damaged in the wars of religion; restored late-17thC by François Le Duc -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA79000909]
Font Notes:
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Cloquet (1890) mentions this font has having four human heads at the basin sides and being "monopédiculée et plus recente" [NB: the other fonts referred to in that paragraph are dated mostly to the 11th to 13th centuries], but the present font at the former abbey church is modern, probably 18th-century, consisting of an oval basin raised on a pedestal base that is round (?) at the top but triangular at the bottom; marble; font cover also oval, with two leaves hinged at the centre -- was the font Cloquet saw ["plus recente"] also modern?].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.2628, -0.21
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 15′ 46.08″ N, 0° 12′ 36″ W
UTM: 30T 715007 5127031
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: unknown
REFERENCES
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 418