Figeac No. 2 / Fijac

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view of church interior - nave

Scene Description: the two recycled capitals serving as bases for the holy-water stoups

view of stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2011 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 August 2011)

INFORMATION

FontID: 03736FIG
Church/Chapel: Eglise St-Sauveur
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: France
Location: Lot, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located about 70 km NE of Cahors on the D653
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [base only] [composite stoup], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: a similar one next to it
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photograph of this stoup
Church Notes: The church originates from the 11th century abbey but has undergone major alterations through the centuries.
Enlart (1902, p. 784 footnote 3) identifies this stoup as a former Romanesque capital. Ditto Lasteyrie (1929). The Palissy database [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palsri_fr] [accessed 4 September 2011] [ref.: PM46000111] lists two 12th-century capitals without giving other particulars than the measurements of the two, without indicating which is which. Both are the common square-to-round capital shape, both decorated with an intricate vegetal pattern individual to each; they both have a prominent roll moulding at the bottom, which is now the top, as they have been upturned to serve as base to the basin of later date; the basins themselves, of a much later date, roughly hemispherical and decorated with prominent ribbed pattern on the outside; the basins, though similar, are not identical, one being made of reddish marble, the other brownish. We do not have information on the date they were set as stoups, though likely after the 17th century. [cf. Index entry for Figeac No. 3 for a second such stoup, and Figeac No. 1 for the baptismal font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.608, 2.0348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 36′ 28.8″ N, 2° 2′ 5.28″ E
UTM: 31T 423163 4939930

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929