Nassigny

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design element - motifs - moulding - 4

Scene Description: forming the bases of the four columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four located a 90-degree angles on the upper part of the basin -- this one is located to the right of the cross and appears to have some head-gear of sorts, with two thin scrolls on the sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four located a 90-degree angles on the upper part of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: one of four located a 90-degree angles on the upper part of the basin -- this head is located to the left of the cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle - processional cross

Scene Description: in very low-relief; the lower end branches into two scrolls

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: there is no drain hole in the basin well -- on the front side of the rim is metal lock for the font cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of context - building - castle

Scene Description: Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093237]: "Château construit vers la fin du 14e siècle, dépendant de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis".

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03876NAS

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 03190 Nassigny, France

Country Name: France

Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located off the D301-D541 cross-roads, in the canton de Hérisson, arrondissement de Monteluçon

Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly in the Diocèse de Bourges]

Historical Region: Val de Cher -- Le Bourbonnais -- Auvergne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, by the door

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

Church Notes: present church 13thC, built on the site of earlier 11thC? church, of which some remnant ("une vielle souche d'abside") was recently discovered. (Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier, 1999, v. 1, p. 453); the earliest church here may have been established ca. 695

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999) as a bucket-shaped basin in ochre sandstone, dated by the source as 11th-13th century, mounted on four cylindrical columns and raised on a very short square plinth; the round basin is ornamented with four human heads at 90-degree angles; one of the sides has a Greek cross in a circle, with a prolongation which appears to make it into a processional cross. On-site notes: although the basin is rounded the upper part is made square by the four angle heads, and the inside well is also square. The low-pyramidal wooden lid is 20th-century; the upper rim surface has a metal lock for the lid and the present cover is hinged at the back, probably using the same hinge placement of the original lid. The font is believed to be the only furnishing that remains from the original 11th-century church here. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM03000414] with date in the 11th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 29' 49.8", 2° 36' 18.67"

UTM: 31T 469519 5149002

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (ochre)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: bucket-shape

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 13-16 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 54 x 54 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm**

Basin Depth: 25 cm*

Basin Total Height: 67 cm*

Height of Base: 39 cm*

Height of Side Columns: 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 65 x 68 cm* (at the plinth)

Trapezoidal Basin: 87 x 89 cm* (at the top)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site -- ** Palissy [ref.: PM03000414]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: modern cover

REFERENCES

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