Urrugne No. 2

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B01: human figure - head

Several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )
Scene Description: Several, a/p description in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- )

INFORMATION

FontID: 04171URR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Vincent
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: South-west on the N10 from St-Jean-de-Luz (dir. Hendaye)
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: The original Romanesque church -writes Allègre [cf. supra for source]- was almost entirely rebuilt in the 16th century after a fire and, again, ca. 1842, after the destruction during the Revolution.
Font Notes:
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as one of the two stoups in this church; this one is the smaller one and is ornamented with human heads or masks [V. Allègre, in the same source, wonders if this could have been the one by the "porte des cagots"]; it is covered with a sort of dais.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

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