Ria-Sirach

INFORMATION

FontID: 04099RIA
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Clément de Sirach
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: In the hamlet of Sirach, near Ria and Prades, about 40 kms WSW of Perpignan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Romanesque
Font Notes:
Listed in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-), in which Durliat suggests the identification of the base of a holy-water stoup as a Romanesque capital formerly from Saint-Michel de-Cuxa [On-site notes: the municipality of Ria-Sirach has two churches; we managed to visit the church at Ria, but the only font there was a 18th-century red-marble one; we could not gain access to the church at Sirach]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-