Puyravault No. 2

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B01: symbol - cross - horned cross

[cf. Font notes for details]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for details]

INFORMATION

FontID: 05579PUY
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WSW of Chaille-les-Marais, 13 km ESE of Luçon down the D50
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Originally built by the Knights Templar, this church has parts of the 12th, 15th and 17th centuries
Font Notes:
Described and ilustrated in Le Patrimoine... de la Vendée (2001, v. 1: 78) as a Romanesque holy-water stoup in the Église Notre-Dame consisting of a basin that is square in plant but has rounded edges and underbowl, looking therefore almost hemispheric; on one of the sides of the basin it has a low-relief motif in the form of a "croix à cornes" [horned cross] that, the source argues, is not an esoteric motif but, rather, a symbol of the Holy Trinity. The pedestal base is a polygonal shaft: square at the upper 1/3, while the rest is hexagonal or octagonal [cf. Index entry for Puyravault No. 2, another Romanesque stoup in the same town]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square (with rounded edges and underbowl)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vendée, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001