Epire / Épiré
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03732EPI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: Gallo-Roman
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne] Saint-Aubin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Albinus of Angers [aka Aubin]
Church Notes: 11th-12thC church; replaced 19thC by new church; the old one re-purposed as a cellar of the Domaine viticole du Château d’Epiré
Church Address: 6 Rue Thierry Sandre, 49170 Savennières, France
Site Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D111, on the left bank of the Loire rives, between Savennières and Bouchemaine, SW of Angers
Additional Comments: recycled stoup: Enlart identified it as a Roman base
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902, p. 784 footnote 3) as being a stoup made from from a former Roman base. This stoup may have been moved to the new church.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.39800, -0.63433
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 784 footnote 3