Poitiers No. 3

Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 June 2019)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - apse
view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: showing the north transept; to the left, outisde the image is the apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2018 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 June 2019)
view of font
view of stoup in context

Scene Description: the upper half appears to be a former font, now raised on a capital, in the churchyard
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2018 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 9 June 2019)
INFORMATION
FontID: 03847POI
Church/Chapel: Eglise St-Hilaire-le-Grand de Poitiers
Church Patron Saints: St. Hilary of Poitiers
Church Location: 26 Rue Saint-Hilaire, 86000 Poitiers, France -- Tel.: +33 5 49 41 21 57
Country Name: France
Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: St-Hilaire is located in the city centre, towards the SW, between the railway station (N) and the Parc de Blossac (S)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N aisle
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double stoup
Cognate Fonts: Vicq (Allier)?
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée, [ref.: PA00105598] may have occupied a previous basilica church, itself built on a palaeo-Christian necropolis; the whole site was destroyed by the Vandals and the Huns in the 5thC; a new basilica built 6thC; became collegiate 8thC but was ravaged by Abd-al-Rahman in the 8thC and by the Vikings in the 9thC; present building started 11thC; much re-built later as it was damaged in the Wars of Religion; re-built 16th, 18th and 19thC;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Enlart (1902) menions in a footnote a holy-water stoup "à deux vasques égales accolées" in a church in Poitiers, and it could perhaps be the double stoup at the west end of the north aisle in St-Hilaire-le-Grand [cf. ImagesArea]; the object is oblong on the outside, the back straight but the front rounded at the angles; broad flat mouldings on the top and bottom sides; the inside has a 8-shaped double basin without separation at the waist; raised on a double base. It is located against one of the westermost pillars of the north aisle.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
46.57747,
0.33247
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
46° 34′ 38.9″ N,
0° 19′ 56.9″ E
UTM: 31T 295610 5161669
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, unknown
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round [2 basins]
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902