Poitiers No. 3

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view of church exterior - apse

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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

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view of church exterior - north view - detail

Scene Description: showing the north transept; to the left, outisde the image is the apse

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view of font

Scene Description: is this an old font from St-Hilaire?

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: the upper half appears to be a former font, now raised on a capital, in the churchyard

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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;
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