Coulonges nr. Perignac

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BH01: human figure - head - 4 - angel?

Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin [NB: one source describes them as angel heads]

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the 18thC font decorated with angels' heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2017 by Marie-Hélène Cingal [https://www.flickr.com/photos/24271543@N03/37492731491/in/photostream/] [accessed 8 December 2017

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2014 by Jack ma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coulonges17_eg6.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2014 by Jack ma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coulonges17_eg3.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 18thC font decorated with angels' heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2017 by Marie-Hélène Cingal [https://www.flickr.com/photos/24271543@N03/37444841236/in/photostream/] [accessed 8 December 2017

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07661COU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Saturnin

Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus

Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 17800 Coulonges, France

Country Name: France

Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D128-D146 crossroads, ESE of Perignac, WNW of Celles, ENE of Pons, SE of Saintes

Historical Region: Poitou-Charentes

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: 12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104661]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Palissy [ref.: PM17001295] reports a holy-water stoup here "orné de quatre têtes d'anges et guirlandes en bas-relief" and dated 18th-century. This is probably the same object described and illustrated in Patrimoine des communes... Charente-Maritime (2002, t. 2: 594) as a limestone baptismal font of the 12th century; the square basin is ornamented with a large head at each angle; the inside of the basin is round; the hemispherical underbowl has thin mouldings; the slender pedestal base is plain and rounded but ends in a square lower base. The heads are described as angel heads also in "Églises & abbayes de la Saintonge romane". [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 12th-century church here].

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Charente-Maritime, Paris: FLOHIC, 2002