Varen No. 1
Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
LB01: design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: on all four sides; this view of the north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
R01: design element - motifs - roundel - 4
Scene Description: at the angles
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of stoup - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta
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view of stoup - southeast side
Scene Description: notice the incongruous base on which the stoup ia riased
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Juan Antonio Olañeta
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 04199VAR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Ancienne priorale Sainte-Marie-et-Saint-Pierre aka Église Saint-Pierre de Varen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter
Country Name: France
Location: Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located 40 km SW of Villefranche-de-Rouerge: D922 S to Laguepie; there, take the D958 W (dir. Caussade/Montauban)
Historical Region: Rouerge
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this object
Church Notes: The church is listed in the MERIMEE database with date in the 11th century: "Le prieuré bénédictin de Varen, mentionné dans un acte de 972, ne fut que tardivement rattaché à l'abbaye d'Aurillac. L'église fut reconstruite par les moines à la fin du 11e siècle."
Font Notes:
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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a holy-water stoup ornamented with roundels and possibly having been originally a votive altar. The rectangular object is now standing on an incongruous squat base; the upper surface of the object appears to have been carved out very irregularly; the general shape is that of small altar, in the Roman style, with constructional colonnettes with moulded capitals and bases at the angles; the lower base has a frieze decorated with scrolls. [cf. Index entry for Varen No. 2 for another listed object in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.157778, 1.893611
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-