Ponce-sur-le-Loir / Poncé-sur-le-Loir / Ponciacus

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and basesl - leaf capital

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: several; one visible here with red paint on

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: maple? vine? -- several

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin - detail

notice the round little arch-heads painted below the rim -- the area of the main basin where it joins with the secondary basin appears to have been chiseled off; this was probably done when the single old font was transformed into a double-font by cementing the secondary basin and pedestal to it [cf. FontNotes]

Scene Description: notice the round little arch-heads painted below the rim -- the area of the main basin where it joins with the secondary basin appears to have been chiseled off; this was probably done when the single old font was transformed into a double-font by cementing the secondary basin and pedestal to it [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2013 by HubertduMaine [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Julien_de_Poncé-sur-le-Loir#mediaviewer/Fichier:Eglise_Saint-Julien_Poncé_(1).jpg] [accessed 13 June 2014]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: this image shows that the secondary basin and pedestal (on the right) are additions to the original font (on the left)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: the drain in the secondary basin is visible in this image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04303PON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Julien

Church Patron Saints: St. Julian

Church Location: 7-9 chemin de l'Église, 72340 Poncé-sur-le-Loir, France

Country Name: France

Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire

Directions to Site: Located off the D223 and D305, 30 km SW of Marolles-le-Saint-Calais, 50 kms SE of Le Mans, 50 km NE of Tours

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese du Mans

Historical Region: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the doorway

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [main font only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: 12thC church with foundation in the 9thC; 12thC mural paintings [listed in Mérimée [réf.: PA00109912] -- full illustrations of church and paintings in www.art-roman.net/ponce/ponce.htm [accessed 13 June 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) simply as a stone baptismal font of the 12th century. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM72000730] as a baptismal font of the 12th century decorated with colonnettes all around. The font consists of a round tapering basin decorated with attached colonnettes all around, with leaf capitals but no bases; between the capitals are a number of motifs (leaves, rosettes) beneath the protruding flat moulding at the upper rim; the basin appears raised on a plain round base; there is an additional secondary basin with a drain in it, raised on a quadrangular pedestal base. There are traces of paint on several areas of the large basin, with some round arch-heads painted in red below the upper rim. The main basin has a flat wooden cover, modern, and there are round metal staples at opposite ends of the upper rim for the locking bar. This font, if the basin is approximately of the 12th century as generally claimed, has been reconstructed in the late-15th or 16th century, transforming the single font into a double by cementing to it the additional parts.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.763056, 0.657778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 45′ 47″ N, 0° 39′ 28″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted) [B1] -- polygonal (mounted) [B2]

Basin Interior Shape: round [B1] -- polygonal [B2]

Basin Exterior Shape: round [B1] -- polygonal [B2]

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, round and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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