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Image copyright © Crozet, 1971
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B01: design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1971
Image Source: Crozet (1971: pl. XLIV-C)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1971
Image Source: Crozet (1971: pl. XLIV-C)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 04208CRE
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Priorale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Sauveur
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & Our Saviour
Country Name: France
Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located near Matha, 18 km NE of Saintes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by R. Crozet in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a curious monolithic Romanesque stoup with a tetralobe shape. It has a cruciform plant both outside and in, with a large acanthus-like motif on at least one of the sides, which are vertical. The illustration shows it badly damaged, with a large open vertical crack in one of the cross-arms; a round hole is visible on the lower side of another arm. If this is a stoup -rather than a font- the hole may have been drilled at a later date [perhaps while it was being used for farm purposes?]. Also in Crozet's 1971 work on the Romanesque art of Saintonge.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cruciform (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: cruciform
Basin Exterior Shape: cruciform
Drainage Notes: the hole on the side may not have been part of the original stoup design
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971