Saint-Leon / Saint-Léon
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03884LEO
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1677
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Cosme-et-Saint-Damien (originally from the chapel at Montpeyrou)
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In the canton de Jaligny-sur-Bresbe, arrondissement de Vichy
Additional Comments: damaged stoup? : Interesting observation regarding the absorption of water of this stoup (which can be related to others, specially those made of porous stones like sandstone, etc.)
Font Notes:
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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, vol. 1, p. 522