Garchizy No. 2

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design element - motifs - handle - 2

Scene Description: a functional rarther than design element

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 July 2001 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 4 July 2001 by BSI

inscription

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view of basin - interior

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 4 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03715GAR

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 27-45 Place Roland Champenier, 58600 Garchizy -- Tel.: 03 86 60 88 71

Country Name: France

Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: In the canton de (and 4 km S of) Pougues-les-Eaux, arrondissement Cousne-Cours-sur-Loire, 12 km NW of Nevers

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side of west door

Date: 1531

Century and Period: 16th century(early)

Cognate Fonts: Many other such cast iron stoups in Burgundy

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM58000567]: "bénitier [...] métal : fondu [...] sur un socle en pierre [...] inscription : Gilbert Gascoing. Date : 1531." Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Nièvre (1999, v. 2, p. 778). On-site notes: bucket-shaped cast iron water stoup typical of Burgundy. This one has a wide upper rim, large square handles and the name of the donnor "Glber Gascoing" and the date of the donnation, "1531", in raised lettering on its sides, between three parallel mouldings. It is placed on a square pedestal. [NB: cf. Index entry for Garchizy No. 1 for an interesting 16th-century font of a type seen in Burgundy and found in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.04731241, 3.09620698

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 2′ 53.16″ N, 3° 5′ 45.96″ E

UTM: 31T 507299 5210514

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, iron (cast iron)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 1-2 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 44-45 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 47-49 cm* / 53 cm**

Basin Depth: 22 cm*

Basin Total Height: 27 cm* / 30 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site -- ** Palissy [ref.: PM58000567]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French

Inscription Notes: The date appears below the name; the letter N is reversed

Inscription Location: on the basin side

Inscription Text: "G[i]LBER[t] GASCOING / 1531"

Inscription Source: On-site; also in Le patrimoine des communes de Nièvre (1999, v. 2, p. 778)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Nièvre, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999