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design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: alternating with four human heads

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: alternatings with four ball motifs

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph in édithpauëtt dans Églises des Landes, Patrimoine des Landes [http://ekladata.com/2LM87a5ViX_XchTx_zZPpZJRE-E.jpg] [accessed 8 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2013 by David Peloquin [http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/89326046.jpg] [accessed 8 March 2015]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Josu Fernández Villaverde

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 4 March 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 04176VIE

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: 64190 Viellenave-de-Navarrenx, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located on the D256, 6 km NE of Navarrenx, 18 km S of Orthez; in the municipality of Navarrenx, district of Oloron-Sainte-Marie

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron

Historical Region: Basse-Navarre, Pays-Basque -- Val d'Adour rive gauche

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Josu Fernández Villaverde, of Beasain, Spain, for his photographs of this stoup

Church Notes: church mid-13thC, restored mid-19thC; listed in Mérimée [référence PA00084354] as having been a chapel-of-ease to the parish church of nearby Arancou [cf. Index entry]

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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a stoup ornamented with the protruding heads common in the Pays Basque. Listed in Palissy [référence IM64002917] as a composite stoup, the basin possibly 15th-century, the base a later replacement. The basin of the stoup is tub-shaped, with a chamfered upper rim, and a row of four human heads and four ball motifs alternating at the bottom of the sides. The broad cylindrical base appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 24' 54.01" N, N 1° 3' 41.72" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Total Height: 30 cm*

Height of Base: 69 cm* [modern base]

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [référence IM64002917]

REFERENCES

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