Huriel No. 3
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Results: 4 records
view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI
view of basin - upper view
![notice the indentation and damage [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/HUR0104205_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice the indentation and damage [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI
view of font in context
Scene Description: seen here on the right side; there is one other font stoup on the opposite side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 05044HUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame d'Huriel
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 03380 Huriel, France
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located 12 km NW of Monteluçon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bourges
Historical Region: Pays d'Huriel -- Le Bocage bourbonnais
Font Location in Church: In the N side of the narthex, against the wall, by the W dor
Century and Period: Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font?
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: an object quasi-cylindrical, although the outer surface has many flat faces worked on it making it really polygonal; it looks suspiciously like a fragment of a double-font; the interior of the upper basin is octagonal; the upper surface of the rim has traces of two lid staples, at opposite ends of the basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.375611, 2.475028
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 22′ 32.2″ N, 2° 28′ 30.1″ E
UTM: 31T 459626 5135916
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: polygonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8-26 cm [very irregular]
Diameter (inside rim): 60-65 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 92-100 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Basin Total Height: 78 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site