Sauvignac No. 2 / Sevinhacum / Sevignacq

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B01: inscription

Scene Description: "1648"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2011 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 22 June 2011 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2011 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2011 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: the later marble stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2011 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04555SAU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Hilaire

Country Name: France

Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located 9 km S of Brossac, 11 W of Chalais, 12 NE of Montguyon, in the canton Brossac, arrondissement Cognac

Historical Region: Saintonge

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: The original fabric of the church dates to the 12th century, but much affected and damaged in the wars of religion; extensively renovated in the 18th and 19th centuries

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Mentioned in Crozet's L'art roman en Saintonge (1971) as a holy-water stoup carved from a plain capital. On-site notes: the old holy-water stoup found inside this church is of crude design and execution, not at all like the description in either of the two sources mentioned; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with the date '1648' scratched on its side, raised on a round pedestal base made of two blocks; additionally, there is a grey-marble stoup of later date and proficient execution, a round basin with a pronounced rim, raised on a round baluster-type base. [NB: we were not able to located the item listed as a capital-shaped baptismal font in the Palissy dabase [référence IM16000400] -- cf. Index entry for Sauvignac No. 1 for the font itself]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 729085 5015704

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Notes on Measurements: [Measurements in Palissy [référence IM16000400]: "h = 63,5 ; la = 57 ; pr = 60,5"]]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: on the basin side

Inscription Text: "1648"

REFERENCES

Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971