Reilhac nr. Champnières No. 3 / Champniers-et-Reilhac

Results: 7 records

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: at least one of the arches may have had a figure or motif in it, but the whole is just too worn to discern

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: photographed on-site by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05070REI

Object Type: Stoup

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Paul de Reilhac

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Country Name: France

Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located in the village of Champniers-et-Reilhac, 20 km N of Nontron, 8 km N of Piegut-Pluviers, 45-50 km E of Angouleme via the D699 (dir. Montron/St-Mathieu)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse Périgueux et Sarlat

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E of the S door

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

On-site notes: crude and/or very worn holy-water stoup located east of the south door; like the other stoup.font of approximately the same period [cf. Index entry for Reilhac No. 2], it has damage to one side of the rim; it is ornamentes with a very crude arcade, with at least one of its arches showing somo sort of a motif or figure in it, too worn now to identify as anything other than a bump. It is mounted on a square base.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.685778, 0.695639

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 41′ 8.8″ N, 0° 41′ 44.3″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 9-10 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 36 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 54-58 cm

Basin Depth: 16 cm

Basin Total Height: 36 cm

Height of Base: 30 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 66 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[NB: the stoup and its base are mounted on one of the bench-like stones of the entrance raising it to 110 cm total height]