Labastide-de-Levis / Labastide-de-Lévis

Results: 6 records

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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: in an arch, right side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - female

Scene Description: a/p identification in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ); at the time the sculpture was installed as the base of the stoup -- it is now [June 2001] detached and secured in a cage behing iron bars

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Latin

Scene Description: in an arch, left side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - statue

Scene Description: formerly installed as the base of the holy-water stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup - left side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup - right side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04135LAB

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Blaise

Church Patron Saints: St. Blaise [aka Biagio, Blas, Blásios, Blasius]

Church Location: 3 Place de l'Église, 81150 Labastide-de-Lévis, France -- Tel.: +33 5 63 43 23 43

Country Name: France

Location: Tarn, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located S of Fayssac, N of Lagrave, between Albi (E) and Gaillac (WSW)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rieux

Historical Region: Albigeois - Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a very original stoup: whereas the polygonal basin has crudely rendered odd motifs (potent cross, fleur-de-lis), the base is a beatiful statue of a richly dressed female (now, unfortunately, decapitated; it was painted in the past); the same source attributes the base to an artist of the Burgundian school (late 15th cent.) responsible for the statues at Monesties-Combefa or the choir at Sainte-Cécile of Albi (entry by Victor Allègre in the Dictionnaire des églises..., 1966- , III A 66). On-site notes: at the time of our visit (June 2001), the lovely marble statuette had been detached from the basin and was located in a wall alcove or niche, near the west end of the church, safe behind bars [cf. Image area]. The hexagonal basin of the stoup is now wall-mounted below an ornamented back-drop.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (basin only) material of the base unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hexagonal (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]

REFERENCES

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