Loches / Leucae
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Results: 18 records
animal - bird?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cadrenforme, 2016
Image Source: undated engraving posted for sale in Cadrenforme [www.cadrenforme.com/182-large_default/chinon-rue-des-jardins.jpG] [accessed 17 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: two different ones, in adjacent squares
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - jug
Scene Description: seen here in the lower register, left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - panel
Scene Description: large ones, in two rows, filled with different motifs and symbols
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
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design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: round, with a handle and hook? -- seen here in the lower register, centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - vase
Scene Description: seen here in the lower register, right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - motifs - vase
Scene Description: seen here in the upper register, left panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
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human figure - male - head - bearded
Scene Description: seen here in the upper register, leftmost panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
human figure - male - head - warrior - wearing helmet
Scene Description: in the lower register, right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cadrenforme, 2016
Image Source: undated engraving posted for sale in Cadrenforme [www.cadrenforme.com/182-large_default/chinon-rue-des-jardins.jpG] [accessed 17 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
human figure - male - warrior - with shield
Scene Description: seen here in the bottom register, right panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
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human figure - male - warrior?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
information
Scene Description: [NB: item posted for sale in Delcamp as "LOCHES - Eglise Saint-Ours - Bénitier (LL. n° 84) Numéro d'objet: 70421226"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Delcampe, 2016
Image Source: reproduction of an undated postcard [verso] printed in Paris by Lévy Fils et Cie, in Delcamp [www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,70421226,var,37--LOCHES--Eglise-Saint-Ours--Benitier-LL-n-84,language,F.html#description] [accessed 17 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manfred Heyde, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2009 by Manfred Heyde [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loches02.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2016]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: [NB: item posted for sale in Delcamp as "LOCHES - Eglise Saint-Ours - Bénitier (LL. n° 84) Numéro d'objet: 70421226"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Delcampe, 2016
Image Source: reproduction of an undated postcard [recto] printed in Paris by Lévy Fils et Cie, in Delcamp [www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,70421226,var,37--LOCHES--Eglise-Saint-Ours--Benitier-LL-n-84,language,F.html#description] [accessed 17 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManuD, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2007 by ManuD [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benitier-saint-ours.jpg] [accessed 17 February
2016]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of stoup in context
Scene Description: [NB: the item is erroneously captioned "Amboise - Ancienne porte du château à la tour Heurtault" in the Cadrenforme advertisement [the resolution is too low to read the actual caption on the engraving] -- the image shows a woman with a child in arms dipping her fingers in the water of the stoup, a traditionally customary act upon entering a Catholic church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cadrenforme, 2016
Image Source: undated engraving posted for sale in Cadrenforme [www.cadrenforme.com/182-large_default/chinon-rue-des-jardins.jpG] [accessed 17 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of stoup in context
Scene Description: the stoup is located at the west end of the nave, south side; the bell-ringing rope hanging on the left suggests the position is beneath the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: drawing by P.H. Delamotte, in Petit (1854)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 04236LOC
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Collégiale Saint-Ours [aka Collégiale Notre-Dame]
Church Patron Saints: Saint Ursus of Toul, [aka Ours] & St. Mary
Church Location: 2 Rue Thomas Pactius, 37600 Loches, France
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located 58 km SE of Tours
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Historical Region: Touraine
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 4th - 5th century, Gallo-Roman
Church Notes: church built 965 after a 5thC monastery here; re-built 11thC; present church 12thC listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097824]
Font Notes:
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A partial illustration of this item appears in a drawing by P.H. De La Motte published in J.L. Petit in his Architectural studies in France (1854); Petit (ibid.) describes it as "a very curious sculptured font […] of a cylindrical form, its ornaments are of an unusual character "; the illustration was reproduced in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 11, September 1854: 300); it shows a cylindrical objacet in the west end of the nave; the sides of the object are decorated with panels in which are inscribed a variety of themes, figures, etc., all apparently in the classical Roman style. Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes that "the church of St. Ours at Loches in Touraine possesses in its holy-water stoup near the west door one of the finest specimens of a cylindrical Roman altar extant, and this has for many centuries been adapted to its Christian use." Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a Gallo-Roman altar now serving as holy-water stoup. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001) as the trunk of a former Gallo-Roman column later recycled as a holy-water stoup; there is foliage motif round the upper basin side, while the rest of the surface of the basin side is divided into twelve frames, each containing a low-relief motif: four of these motifs, suggests this same source, may represent the god Baccus; other squares contain warrior figures. The object was, again, according to this same source, described by Prosper Mérimé after his visit to Loches in 1841.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.1269, 0.9983
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 7′ 36.84″ N, 0° 59′ 53.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 830)]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001
Petit, J.L. [John Louis] [Rev.], Architectural studies in France, London: George Bell, 1854
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928