Anville

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Image Source: Text by Michel Claveyrolas

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Scene Description: the three seen here are different from each other

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2007 by Rosier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anville.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04559ANV

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Médard

Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]

Church Location: 16170 Anville, France

Country Name: France

Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D64, 7 km NW of Rouillac, 22 km ENE of Cognac, 25 km NE of Angoulême

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angoulême

Historical Region: Le Rouillacais, Angoumois, Poitou-Charentes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his information and photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church documented 1184, but probably had existed already for a century; re-built 12thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Mentioned in Crozet's L'art roman en Saintonge (1971: 117) as a Romanesque baptismal font: octagonal and ornamented with large crosses. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM16000051] with date in the 13th century. Described in Michel Claveyrolas: "Les fonts baptismaux, situés au début de la nef, ont été datés du XIIIe siècle, mais, comme souvent dans les zones rurales, le style roman s'est prolongé au-delà du XIIe siècle. C'est une cuve octogonale dont les faces sont séparées par des moulures en grosses baguettes imitant des colonnes engagées. Chaque face est ornée d'une croix en relief, sauf sur une face où la croix est dessinée par un contour en creux." The large Latin crosses are not all identical; some are plain, others potent and one appears to have some of its ends trefoiled. The old font is now raised in a squat modern octagonal base or plinth. No font cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.828201, -0.109219

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 49′ 41.53″ N, 0° 6′ 33.19″ W

UTM: 30T 724529 5079024

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM16000051]

REFERENCES

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