Avon-les-Roches No. 1

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human figure - male - head?

Scene Description: at least two of them appear to be human; they could have a rope (?) in their mouths

Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

human figure - male - head?

Scene Description: at least two of them appear to be human; they could have a rope (?) in their mouths

Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2015 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avon-les-Roches_(37)_Église_Notre-Dame_01.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

view of font

Image Source: digital version of item 37W00047 in the Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (documentation des objets mobiliers) [ref. AP37W00047 ]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04226AVO

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: France

Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire

Directions to Site: Located in the canton de L'Île-Bouchard, arrondissement de Chinon, about 60 kms SW of Tours down the D757

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: The font at Tavant, in the same region, is of a similar design, but the heads there are animal

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julianna Lees for her photographs of this font

Church Notes: documented 1088; re-built 12th and 13thC; expanded 16thC; renovated 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097544 + IA37000292]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- : III D 12-13) simply as a 12th-century baptismal font. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 572) as a cylindrical limestone basin of the 12th century mounted on a short and narrower circular base; the upper basin sides are ornamented with four human (?) heads; around the lower basin side there are fragments of a roll-moulding that must have surrounded the whole area. The font has suffered much damage and appears to have been repaired/restored. A low-dome cover ornamented with rope and foliage motif is shown next to the font, obviously of a much later date. Noted and illustrated in PALISSY [ref.: PM37000035]: "L' église a conservé une partie de son mobilier d' origine du 12e siècle ( bénitier et fonts baptismaux )"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.1568, 0.449

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 9′ 24.48″ N, 0° 26′ 56.4″ E

UTM: 31T 306632 5225746

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: low-dome cover of a later date; appears to be of the same colour as the font but it may be painted wood

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001