Saint-Avit-Senieur / Saint-Avit-Sénieur / St.-Avit-Sénieur
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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus
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 stoup in context
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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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animal - mammal - lion - facing each other - 2
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
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04195AVI
Object Type: Stoup
Object Details: capital, Romanesque
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 12th century, Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroisiale Saint-Avit [formerly a priory church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end to the nave, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Avit [aka Avitus, Sextus Alcimus Ecditius Avitus]
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.
Site Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: recycled capital: (early-?) 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.
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
UTM: 31T 327213 4960220
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.7745, 0.81625
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 46′ 28.2″ N, 0° 48′ 58.5″ E
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-, III B 149