Sauvagny No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03877SAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Germain
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Notes: The single-nave church appears to have been originally the chapel of the castle and was known in 1095 as being dependent from the priory at Souvigny (Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 459) [cf. entry for Sauvagny No. 2, a "Carolingian" stoup listed for this church in the Index]
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Hérisson, arrondissement de Monteluçon
Font Notes:
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Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 459) as a rather crude example of a double-font and dated to the 14th century. The monolithic vat-like basin is irregular, plain with a broken off chunk on the upper rim. It has a shorter and smaller stoup-like attachment on one of its sides, though it is not clear from the source information whether or not they are one-piece or two. The attached "piscine" is rounded in shape, except for the side at which it attaches to the basin, and it has a cylindrical base.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: double-font, bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, 1) bucket-shape 2) semicircular
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Notes: The larger basin appears to have a flat wooden cover of modern manufacture
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999, vol. 1, p. 459