Saint-Paul-d'Oueil No. 2 / Sent Pau d'Oelh
Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2022
Image and permission received from the author via MIkel Unanue (e-mail of 21 March 2022)
Results: 21 records
B01:
human figure - head
Scene Description: Several, a/p the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - horse-shoe arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: it is a simplified arcade of two arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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head - 2
Scene Description: source caption: "Saint-Paul-d'Oueil - Eglise Saint-Gordien" [NB: the two heads are quite different; tne one seen here on the left appears humanoid but grotesque, in a screaming stance, whereas the head on the right has regular human features]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2017 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Paul-d'Oueil_-_Eglise_Saint-Gordien_-_07.jpg]
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via MIkel Unanue (e-mail of 21 March 2022)
symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in the single spandrel of the two-arch arcade
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Paul-d'Oueil - Eglise Saint-Gordien"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2017 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Paul-d'Oueil_-_Eglise_Saint-Gordien_-_06.jpg
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Paul-d'Oueil - Eglise Saint-Gordien"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 17 July 2017 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Paul-d'Oueil_-_Eglise_Saint-Gordien_-_04.jpg
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "La sacristie et la façade nord-est de l'église Saint-Gordien, Saint-Paul-d'Oueil, Haute-Garonne, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2011 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Paul-d'Oueil_église.jpg] [accessed 22 March 2022]
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view of church exterior - south portal
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of font and stoup in context
Scene Description: the stoup on the left, the font ahead, in the alcove
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of stoup
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: " Le bénitier de l'église Saint-Gordien, Saint-Paul-d'Oueil, Haute-Garonne, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 June 2011 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Paul-d'Oueil_église_bénitier.jpg] [accessed 22 March 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04165PAU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Gordien
Church Patron Saints: St. Gordianus [aka Gordien, Gondran]
Church Location: 31110 Saint-Paul-d'Oueil, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the D51/D510, just SE of Mayrègne, in the canton and 6 km NW of Bagnères-de-Luchon, near the border with Spain at the Val d'Aran
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Toulouse
Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entranceway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Benque-Dessous and Saint-Aventin (both in Haute-Garonne)?
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a Romanesque holy-water stoup ornamented with heads. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM31002557]: "Bénitier orné de trois têtes en relief et d'arcs outrepassés jumelés [...] Marbre (gris) : taillé [...] H = 50 ; la = 25 [...] daté sans certitude du 12e siècle."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
42.82972,
0.55053
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
42° 49′ 46.99″ N,
0° 33′ 1.91″ E
UTM: 31T 299793 4744816
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: "H = 50 ; la = 25" [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-