Uzerche No. 4 / Sainte-Eulalie / Usercha

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2017 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: at the top of the backdrop

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2017 by BSI

information

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2017 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 June 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05121UZE

Church/Chapel: Chapelle [ancienne paroissiale] Sainte-Eulalie

Church Patron Saints: St. Eulalia of Mérida

Church Location: Faubourg Sainte-Eulalie, 19140 Uzerche, France

Country Name: France

Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D3-D920 crossroads, NW of Tulle, about 50 kms SE of Limoges down the A20/E09 [NB: Saint-Eulalie was a separate hamlet until 1826, when it merged with Uzerche]

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

Historical Region: Limousin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW side (wall-mounted)

Century and Period: , Medieval

Church Notes: possible Early Christian baptistery here; whatever church was here at the time was destroyed by the Vikings 909; re-built late-19thC; present church is 15thC with later modifications

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On-site notes: one of two wall-mounted holy-water stoups of roughly conical form, this one on the southwest side; It has graded chamfering on the lower part of the cone; there is a crudely carved head above the wall recess and backdrop, over the stoup.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 387678 5031234

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: conical (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 17-18 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 29 cm

Basin Depth: 11 cm

Basin Total Height: 35 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI [NB: including the recess and the head above the basin the height is 85 cm]