Arfeuilles / Arfoglia / Arfolia
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: the modern church
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Image Source: digital photograph posted by madame_dulac in Lieux Sacrés [http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/04/23/4739264.html] [accessed 13 January 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph posted by madame_dulac in Lieux Sacrés [http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/04/23/4739264.html] [accessed 13 January 2017]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: the ancient stoup from the demolished 12thC church
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Image Source: digital photograph posted by madame_dulac in Lieux Sacrés [http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/04/23/4739264.html] [accessed 13 January 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03885ARF
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Germaine earlier church Saint-Pardoux]
Church Patron Saints: St. Germaine [earlier church dedicated to St. Pardoux]
Church Location: 03640 Arfeuilles, France
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located between Châtelus (N) and Châtel-Montagne (S), E of Le Breuil, in the canton de Lapalisse, 30 km ENE of Vichy
Historical Region: Auvergne
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval / composite
Church Notes: ancient [12thC?] church here described by its parish priest as a "dégouttante étable" in 1865 and demolished; new church completed 1870
Font Notes:
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Listed in Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier (1999, v. 1, p. 537) as a holy-water stoup of probably composite nature: the crudely carved Romanesque base, has four constructional rounded pillars; the basin is bucket-shaped. The Arfeuilles local web site [www.arfeuilles.fr/eglise.html] [accessed 13 January 2017] and the blog Lieux Sacrés [http://lieuxsacres.canalblog.com/archives/2007/04/23/4739264.html] [accessed 13 January 2017] provide some information on the history of the ancient and new church buildings, the latter with a reference to and a photograph of the ancient stoup.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: bucket-shape
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de l'Allier, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999