Sauve nr. Créon / Grande Sauve

INFORMATION

FontID: 03740SAU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de La Sauve
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Rue de l'Eglise St Pierre, 33670 La Sauve, France
Country Name: France
Location: Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D239-D671 crossroads, 4-5 km E of Créon, about 28 kms SE of Bordeaux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: The monastery was founded in 1080 by St Gerard of Corbie (a/p G. Goyau's article on Bordeaux in the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, on-line version at www.newadvent.org)
Listed by Enlart (1902, p. 784 footnote 3) as a former Romanesque capital now used as a stoup, and in a later reference (1902, p. 785 footnote 4) he mentions that the well is quatrefoil shaped. Also in Lasteyrie (1929), probably after Enlart.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.788889, -0.316944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 47′ 20″ N, 0° 19′ 1″ W
UTM: 30T 712242 4963001

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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