Cresse / Cressé
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
Font ID: 04208CRE
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Priorale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Sauveur / Église priorale de la Transfiguration de Cressé
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & Our Saviour
Church Notes: 11thC church -- listed in Mérimé2 [ref.: PA00104665]
Church Address: 14 Rue de la Font du Parc, 17160 Cressé, France -- Tel.: +33 5 46 26 13 42
Site Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D224, about 10 km NE of Matha, about 35 km NE of Saintes, 45 NW of Angouleme
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de La Rochelle et Saintes
Additional Comments: recycled / damaged stoup?:
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 [quatrefoiled] 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. The entry for this object in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00026590], an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph, shows the damaged object.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 715610 5088329
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.914695, -0.219738
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 54′ 52.9″ N, 0° 13′ 11.06″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cruciform, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Drainage System: side drainage system (?)
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-, III C 59-60; ill. on p. III C 59
- Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971, p. 115 and ill. pl. XLIV-C
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.