Puyravault No. 1
INFORMATION
FontID: 04558PUY
Object Type: Stoup
Country Name: France
Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WSW of Chaille-les-Marais, 13 km ESE of Luçon down the D50
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Mentioned in Crozet's L'art roman en Saintonge (1971: 115-117) as a curious holy-water stoup: a twelve-lobed basin appears to have been hollowed out from the stem of a fluted column. [cf. Index entry for Puyravault No. 2 for another interesting stoup in this town]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: poly-lobed (12)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971