Revest-les-Roches

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human figure - head

Image Source: digital image in Mairie de Revest-les-Roches [https://revest06.fr/patrimoine-2/] [accessed 12 April 2025]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: ""Bénitier. Pierre sculptée représentant un visage date du XIIe-XIIIe siècle."

Image Source: digital image in Mairie de Revest-les-Roches [https://revest06.fr/patrimoine-2/] [accessed 12 April 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03682REV

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean

Church Patron Saints: St. John

Church Location: 6 Pl. Saint-Laurent, 06830 Revest-les-Roches, France

Country Name: France

Location: Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Located off the D27, 6 km SE of Toudon, 7 km N of Gilette, about 25 km N of Nice

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: a church mentioned here in 1091; much modified since

Font Notes: Click to view

Round water stoup, dated to the 12th-13th century, with mortar-like protrusions with at least one face carved on one of the sides. Noted and illustrated in La Mairie de Revest-les-Roches [https://revest06.fr/patrimoine-2/] [accessed 12 April 2025]: "Bénitier. Pierre sculptée représentant un visage date du XIIe-XIIIe siècle. Le décor de cet objet invite les fidèles, qui à l’époque étaient en majorité analphabètes, à prendre de l’eau bénite pour se signer en entrant dans l’église."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.880556, 7.157222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 52′ 50″ N, 7° 9′ 26″ E

UTM: 32T 351960 4860257

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: round (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes des Alpes-Maritimes, Charenton: FLOHIC, 2000