Uzerche No. 1 / Usercha

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animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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information

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - detail

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view of church exterior - plaque

Scene Description: Boson II (?), a nobleman of Provence and possibly 2nd abbot of the abbey here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - plaque - detail

Scene Description: Boson II (?), a nobleman of Provence and possibly 2nd abbot of the abbey here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - capital

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view of church interior - apse - detail

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: in a corner, against the wall, on the west side of the south door

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03737UZE

Church/Chapel: Eglise parossiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 19140 Uzerche, France

Country Name: France

Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D3-D920 crossroads, NW of Tulle, about 50 kms SE of Limoges down the A20/E09

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]

Historical Region: Limousin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W side of the S doorway into the crossing

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: church here by the 6thC; destroyed by Vikings 860; present church 12thC; re-built early 14thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099947]: "Une église est mentionnée dans la commune dès le 6e siècle. Vers l'an 760, Pépin le Bref fait réparer l'église, élever une forteresse et fonder un monastère. En 860, l'ensemble est détruit par les Normands. L'église et le monastère sont rétablis vers 980. En 1028, le monastère et l'église sont ravagés par un incendie et restaurés peu après par les religieux. Vers 1312, l'église prend son aspect actuel, en conservant quelques éléments anciens. Le monastère est détruit au 15e siècle et l'église ravagée. En 1747, l'ancien monastère est remplacé par une collégiale. L'église est affectée au chapitre à cette époque, puis à la paroisse en 1801."

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Listed in the Phaidon guide (France, 1985, p. 745) as one of three capitals "converted into holy-water stoups", this one, "decorated with human heads and lions". [cf. Index entries for Uzerche Nos. 2 & 3]. Enlart (1902, p. 784 footnote 3) lists recycled "Chapiteaux romans" but does not specify how many or details of ornamentation. Lasteyrie (1929), probably after Enlart, just mentions one such converted capital in the church of Uzerche. On-site notes: this capital stands in now in a corner, against the wall, on the west side of the south door. It is quite large and very eroded, although faces or heads can be made out at the corners. The church was being heavily restored at the time of our visit [June 2001]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.4247, 1.56377

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 25′ 28.92″ N, 1° 33′ 49.57″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 6-20 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 51-52 cm

Basin Depth: 11 cm

Basin Total Height: 68 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 62 x 63 cm (at the top)

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

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

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985