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B01: design element - motifs - rope
Scene Description: a/p description in Lasteyrie (1929)
B02: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a/p description in Lasteyrie (1929)
INFORMATION
FontID: 04699WAA
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Dsevres, arrondissement de Boulogne-sur-Mer
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Described in Lasteyrie (1929) as a capital-shaped holy-water stoup which, contrary to appearances, probably was never a capital. Lasteyrie argues that the upper ornamentation of rope mouldings and foliage would not be found on any capital.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: capital
REFERENCES
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929