Solignac No. 4 / Solemniacum

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Results: 5 records

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 6

Scene Description: all blank except one

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

information

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symbol - cross - Greek - fleurdelisée

Scene Description: in one of the six arches on the basin sides

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view of stoup

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Image Source: digital image of a "Négatif noir et blanc; gélatino-bromure; support verre" taken in 1922 by Gossin (photographe), in Mémoire [MH0062669] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0021/sap01_mh062669_p.jpg] [accessed 24 February 2017]

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view of stoup

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 05117SOL
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: rue de l'Abbaye, 87110 Solignac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 55 00 42 31
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the C2-C19-D32 crossroads, 10 km S of Limoges
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N crossing
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM87000443]: "bénitier [...] granite] 12e siècle (?) [...] La vasque est décorée sur chacun de ses pans d'une arcature, l'une d'elles accueille une croix pattée dont la surface est nervurée." On-site notes: a small hexagonal granite holy-water stoup ornamented with an arcade of round arches, all empty except for the front one, which houses a fleur-de-lisé cross. It is raised on a plain cylindrical column.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.75472, 1.27528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 45′ 16.99″ N, 1° 16′ 31.01″ E
UTM: 31T 365862 5068242

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 32-36 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 47-54 cm* / 47 cm**
Basin Depth: 17 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32 cm*
Height of Base: 68 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 28 x 32 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm* / 47 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: PM87000443]