Saint-Paul-d'Oueil No. 2 / Sent Pau d'Oelh

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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

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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2022 by Montse Rota Serra

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design element - motifs - moulding

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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

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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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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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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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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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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-