Saint-Avit-Senieur / Saint-Avit-Sénieur / St.-Avit-Sénieur
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animal - mammal - lion - facing each other - 2
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Image Source: B&W photograph by Gossin in Mémoire [ref.: MH0076584 -- APMH00076584]
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Jochen Jahnke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F08.St.-Avit-Sénieur.0071.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2013]
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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jochen Jahnke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Jochen Jahnke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F08.St.-Avit-Sénieur.0071.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2013]
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Scene Description: the old recycled capital seen in the foreground, right side of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jochen Jahnke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Jochen Jahnke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F08.St.-Avit-Sénieur.0064.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2013]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jochen Jahnke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Jochen Jahnke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F08.St.-Avit-Sénieur.0071.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2013]
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2013
Image Source: B&W photograph by Gossin in Mémoire [ref.: MH0076584 -- APMH00076584]
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view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jochen Jahnke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2008 by Jochen Jahnke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F08.St.-Avit-Sénieur.0064.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04195AVI
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroisiale Saint-Avit [formerly a priory church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Avit [aka Avitus, Sextus Alcimus Ecditius Avitus]
Country Name: France
Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located N of Labouquerie, W of Beaumont-du-Périgord, about 30 km from Bergerac
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
Historical Region: Pays Beaumontois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end to the nave, S side
Century and Period: 10th - 12th century, Medieval / composite
Church Notes: early church here [9th-10thC] said to have been destoyed by the Normans; 11thC church built on the site of present church -- inventoried in Mérimée [ref.: PA00082809]: "Du monastère fortifié ne restent que quelques ruines [...] vestiges de l'ancienne abbaye [...] église abbatiale [...] 12e siècle". The prioy church is inventoried in the same source under ref.: IA24000304 and, in brief, states that, although there is evidence of the priory by 1096, and there is evidence of the consecration of an altar in 1117, the church would not have been finished until much later.
Font Notes:
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A stone object said to be from the old abbey church is described and illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a Romanesque capital now serving as holy-water stoup, the upper rim part being square and the rest rounded; the visible side is ornamented with interlace and foliage motif. Noted in Palissy [ref.: IM24000140] as a Romanesque capital decorated with palmette motif, foliage scrolls and confronted lions, re-worked in the 19th century to serve as holy-water stoup. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: MH0076584 -- APMH00076584]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.7745, 0.81625
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 46′ 28.2″ N, 0° 48′ 58.5″ E
UTM: 31T 327213 4960220
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square-to-round (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Total Height: 98 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: IM24000140]]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-