Mesples
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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]
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symbol - cross - Latin
Scene Description: On one of the basin sides
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
Font ID: 03881MES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pardoux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Pardoux
Church Notes: original Romanesque church; present church 19thC
Church Address: 03370 Mesples, France
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D12-D113 crossroads, SSW of Viplaix, NW of Montluçon
Historical Region: Auvergne
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Romanesque church here)
Font Notes:
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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, vol. 1, p. 486