Versols No. 1 / Versols-et-Lapeyre / Cayla?
Results: 5 records
design element - architectural - arcade
design element - motifs - interlace
design element - motifs - vine - grape
information
view of church exterior - southeast view
INFORMATION
FontID: 04200VER
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption [Notre Dame du Cayla?]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 12400 Versols-et-Lapeyre, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aveyron, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located 10 km SE of Saint-Affrique, 30 kms from Millau -- the old priory is located in a secluded spot that is accessible mainly by a 'chemin' called Les Pelicardes Basses, zigzagging towards the Ruisseau de la Calm]
Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Font Notes:
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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a holy-water stoup carved no doubt out of an ancient altar; it is ornamented with arches of twisted columns, interlace and grapevine motifs. Soutou (1969) notes a record of 1203 in which Bec de Brusque donates "Beate Marie del Caslar : Notre-Dame du Cayla [...] la glesia dal Castlar" to Ricard de Lapeyre, commander of the Knights Hospitaler at Saint-Felix-de-Sorgues [NB: the latter a location closer to Cayla than Versols]. On-site notes: the only object identified in this church during our visit was a pedestal holy-water stoup whose basin is ornamented with a blind arcade and dated 1615 -- not clear whether we visited the right church, as the entry in the Dictionnaire... may refer to Notre Dame du Cayla, an old priory church outside of Versols, itslef a hamlet or village in the Versols-et-Lapeyre commune, bot of which parts have separate churches as well [Lapeyre un ruins but with a magnificent 11thC tympanum]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1615"
Inscription Source: on-site
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Soutou, André, "Documents sur quelques églises du Rouerge (XIe at XIII siècles)", vol. 81 (1969), 94, Annales du Midi: revue archéologique, historique et philologique de le France méridionale, 1969, pp. 349-378; p. 356