Meymac No. 3

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the drain hole, partially visible here, is blocked now -- the crcked lines where the repairs were made are discernible on the back side -- was it ever used as a font?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: disused now

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05056MEY

Church/Chapel: Ancienne abbatiale Saint-André-et-Saint-Léger

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew & St. Leger

Church Location: rue du Bûcher / av. Limousine, 19250 Meymac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 55 95 23 30

Country Name: France

Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located in the Plateau de Millevaches, 13 kms W of Ussel

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]

Historical Region: Limousin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a S chapel of the E end

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Another such in the same church

Church Notes: Interesting capitals at the western end of the nave; beautiful black Madonna and Child said to be of the 12th century, but looking more like a 16th-century work [cf. Image area].

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: one of a pair of vat-shaped objects in this church; now used as flower-pot but it looks like a baptismal font [probably from another church of the area?]; totally plain except for a moulding near the bottom; the basin upper sides, now reinforced with an iron band all around it, show damage signs at opposite ends, where the metal staples of an old cover were, and the basin bottom, which has a roll moulding all around, has a centre drain hole now sealed.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.5352, 2.1481

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 32′ 6.72″ N, 2° 8′ 53.16″ E

UTM: 31T 433485 5042760

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: now sealed

Rim Thickness: 13-15 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 96-98 cm

Basin Depth: 38 cm

Basin Total Height: 63 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 63 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-line