Dompierre-sur-Yon

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CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: around the lower end of the underbowl

INFORMATION

FontID: 05585DOM
Church/Chapel: [In the presbitery garden - originally from the ancienne église]
Country Name: France
Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton des Essarts, arrondissement de la Roche-sur-Yon
Font Location in Church: [in the presbitery garden]
Century and Period: 17th century,
Church Notes: The small church from which this stoup originated has been replaced by a large one of ca. 1881
Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine... de la Vendée (2001, v. 1: 215) as a holy-water stoup unearthed by M. le curé A. Carreau in 1980 and later placed in the presbitery garden. This stoup is of a popular design of stoups of this period: octagonal basin with octagonal chamfered underbowl ending in a round moulding, and raised on a plain octagonal pedestal.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

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