Bourbon-l'Archambault

Results: 10 records

animal - fish - dolphin - in vertical position - 4

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

design element - motifs - foliage

design element - motifs - foliage

design element - patterns - scalloped

design element - patterns - scalloped

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: transcription in Soultrait (1855: 120)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Modillons58, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2011 by Modillons58 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bourbon_l'Archambault_église_St_Georges_(1).jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOT, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2005 by Mossot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BOURBON-L'ARCHAMBAULT_-_EGLISE_SAINT-GEORGES_-1.jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Modillons58, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2011 by Modillons58 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bourbon_l'Archambault_église_St_Georges_(2).jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

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view of church interior - capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Modillons58, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2011 by Modillons58 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bourbon_l'Archambault_église_St_Georges_(3).jpg] [accessed 8 February 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03854BOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Georges
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: 03160 Bourbon-l'Archambault, France
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: In the canton de Bourbon-l'Archambault, arrondissement de Moulins
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins
Historical Region: Le Bourbonnais -- Bocage bourbonnais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1500
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic
Church Notes: church originally 9thC, 12thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093012]
Reported in an oral presentation by Georges de Soultrait to the 21st session of the 1854 Congrès archéologique de France, as one of several stone fonts of the late-15th or early-16th century in the Allier, this one with an inscription in Gothic lettering recording the donor of the font. Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine des comunes de l'Allier (1999). Double-font of very uneven parts: the main font is a large octagonal basin mounted on a broad cylindrical stem and raised on a short octagonal lower base; the underbowl is adorned with floral motif and there is an inscription informing that the donor was a priest at Bourbon; the stem of the base is covered in a scallop pattern with four head-down dolphins vertically positioned on the base sides; the additional or secondary font is, by comparison, very small in volume, slightly shorter than the main one and very slender, but it does have the same topical ornamentation and is attached to the main one at the basin and lower base through a rectangular piece. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM03000036]: "Fonts baptismaux de forme octogonale ornés de feuillages sculptés et d'écailles sur la cuve et à la base de quatre têtes de dauphins [...] 1er quart 16e siècle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.58202, 3.05791
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 34′ 55.27″ N, 3° 3′ 28.48″ E
UTM: 31T 504437 5158719

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) (double-font)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [B1+B2]
Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm* [main basin]
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM03000036]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Notes: Rachet appears to have been a priest of Bourbon
Inscription Location: On the stem of the base, under the underbowl
Inscription Text: "Lan mil Dc por lois / ces fons fist faire / cure M. J. Rachet"
Inscription Source: Soultrait 1854 [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood?,
Notes: Flat modern wooden lids on both basins

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999