Vernoil-le-Fourrier / Vernoil-le-Fourier

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BH01: human figure - head - 4?

Scene Description: a large head on each (?) of the alternate sides of the octagonal basin

INFORMATION

FontID: 04246VER
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vincent
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent
Country Name: France
Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Longué-Jumelles, arrondissement de Saumur, about 60 km E of Angers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Bernantes? [not listed]
Font Notes:
Illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- : III D 172) as a 12th century holy-water stoup; it is an octagonal unmounted object of approximately the same perimeter at top and bottom, slightly narrower at the chamfer of the basin and the upper base. There are two large heads visible on the front panel of the basin as well as on the third to the right and left of this one; it is not clear whether or not there is also one on the side facing the wall. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 771) as an octagonal unmouted holy-water stoup of the 12th century with heads ornamenting some of the upper basin sides. This same source mentions that the one at Bersantes (?) is similar [not yet located or listed]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 771)

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001