Mesples
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symbol - cross - Latin
Scene Description: On one of the basin sides
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Communauté de Communes du Pays d’Huriel web site [www.cc-pays-huriel.com/communaute-de-communes/les-communes/mesples/] [accessed 16 April 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Communauté de Communes du Pays d’Huriel, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Communauté de Communes du Pays d’Huriel web site [www.cc-pays-huriel.com/communaute-de-communes/les-communes/mesples/] [accessed 16 April 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 03881MES
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pardoux
Church Patron Saints: St. Pardoux
Church Location: 03370 Mesples, France
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the D12-D113 crossroads, SSW of Viplaix, NW of Montluçon
Historical Region: Auvergne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entranceway
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: original Romanesque church; present church 19thC
Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 486) as a baptismal font of the 17th century. Noted and illustrated in Les secrets du Pays d'Huriel [www.cc-pays-huriel.com/communaute-de-communes/les-communes/mesples/] [accessed 16 April 2017]: "L’édifice date de la période romane mais a été l’objet de plusieurs campagnes de rénovation. A droite en entrant dans la nef, se trouve une cuve baptismale monolithe de forme conique du XVIIe". The monolitic object is shaped like an inverted truncated square pyramid, the only visible ornamentation being a scotia under the upper rim and a Latin cross on one of the sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999
