Saint-Leon / Saint-Léon

INFORMATION

FontID: 03884LEO
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Cosme-et-Saint-Damien (originally from the chapel at Montpeyrou)
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: In the canton de Jaligny-sur-Bresbe, arrondissement de Vichy
Date: 1677
Century and Period: 17th century(late),
Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 522) as a holy-water stoup of the 17th century (the date 1677 is cerved on the lower base), an octagonal monolith with several mouldings as only ornamentation. Our source [cf. supra] informs that the stone of the stoup is so porous that the unlined stoup is known to absorve twenty liters of water per week; it now has lead lining made at the Abbaye de Sept-Fonts.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: One of the sides of the lower base
Inscription Text: "1677"
Inscription Source: Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 522)

REFERENCES

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