Nouatre / Nouâtre

Results: 3 records

BD101: design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: very large, creating eight large triangles around the basin sides

BD102: design element - motifs - fluting

Scene Description: inside some of the triangular patterns on the basin sides

BD201: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: water-leaf

INFORMATION

FontID: 06163NOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale Saint-Jean
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, arrondissement de Chinon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 1231) as the original baptismal font from the Romanesque abbey church of St-Jean; it consists of a large tub-shaped unmounted basin with a top square plan but round, and narrower, at the bottom; attached to it is a very small capital-like auxiliary basin mounted on a cylindrical shaft; it is now secured to the larger basin by an iron staple; both basins have some ornamentation on the outer sides: the main basin has a few geometrical motifs (large zig-zag lines) and a few fluted low-reliefs; the small basin has water-leaf decoration.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (basin1) - square (Basin2)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)
Basin Exterior Shape: square top and round bottom (both basins)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: the larger basin appears to have a flat wooden lid, modern

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001