Villeneuve-le-Roi

***PROBLEM: APPEARS TO BE THE SAME AS THE STOUP LISTED AS VILLENEUVE-SUR-YONNE*** Described and illustrated in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 2: 201-202 and fig. 2 on p. 202) as a stoup conceived as part of the design, not an afterthought [="ce n'est pas un accessoire rapporté après coup, il est prévu en bâtissant"]; he dates the stoup and the building to mid-13th century. Described and illustrated in Lasteyrie (1926-1927), after Viollet-le-Duc, as a wall-mounted holy-water stoup; it consists of a hexagonal basin, with five regular sides, the sixth built into the wall; the upper rim has a roll moulding, and a canopy shaped like a building of many domes and windows, the type, adds Lasteyrie, which was used to place above the figures ornamenting portals at the time of Philippe Auguste [i.e., Philip II, king of France,; died 1223]. Lasteyrie finds the design too complex to belong to the 12th century. The "canopy" that is wall-mounted above the stoup represents a walled town and is reminiscent of the ornamentation on the font at Redecilla del Camino, Burgos province, Spain [cf. Index entry]