Leignes-sur-Fontaine No. 1

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Apostle or saint - St. Hilary?

Scene Description: on the chamfer of the basin side [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Leignes-sur-Fontaine_-_église_-_fonts_baptismaux_03.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Sun and Moon - kneeling figures

Scene Description: there are three figures kneeling at the foot of the cross: a larger one on the left dressed in rich clothing and two smaller ones on the right; scrolls issuing from their mouths may contain a text [too low resolution for identification] -- presumably the Saint's identification in Mémoire refers to the standing figure on the chamfer

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inscription

Scene Description: [full text not available; the text appears to refer to the holy water itself]

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view of church exterior - borth portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Hilaire [...] Porte d’accès nord, détail des inscriptions [...] 1613" [NB: the lettering of the inscription here is very similar to the one used on other parts of the church, including the inscriptions of the two stoups; some of them are dated, the dates ranging between the late 16th and early 17thC]

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP12R058561] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Hilaire de Leignes-sur-Fontaine"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 September 2012 by Ebbblue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Leignes_sur_Fontaine.JPG] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise de Leignes-sur-Fontaine"

Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Leignes-sur-Fontaine.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Leignes-sur-Fontaine - église - fonts baptismaux" [NB: this image is labelled "fonts baptismaux"; two other images of it are labelled "bénitier"]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Leignes-sur-Fontaine - église - bénitier" [NB: this image is labelled "bénitier""; anoother image of it is labelled "fonts baptismaux]

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view of stoup

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier exécuté vers 1600 [...] Taille de pierre [...] Calvaire, I.N.R.I., soleil, lune, saint Hilaire" -- there are three figures kneeling at the foot of the cross: a larger one on the left dressed in rich clothing and two smaller ones on the right; scrolls issuing from their mouths may contain a text [too low resolution for identification] -- the standing figure on the chamfer is identified by an inscription as St. Hilary

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP86W00163] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP86W00163] [accessed 20 December 2023] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier exécuté vers 1600 [...] Taille de pierre"

Image Source: digital photograph 2013 by Thierry Allard, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA086_20238601040] [accessed 20 December 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07702LEI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancien prieuré] Saint-Hilaire de Leignes-sur-Fontaine

Church Patron Saints: St. Hilary of Poitiers

Church Location: 11 Pl. de l'Église, 86300 Leignes-sur-Fontaine, France

Country Name: France

Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D115, 15 km SE of Chauvigny, about 35 km ESE of Poitiers

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Poitiers

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the entrance, to the left

Century and Period: 12th century [altered stoup], Late Romanesque?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: re-carved by the abbé Olivier Siret in the 17th century

Cognate Fonts: another such on the opposite side of the entrance

Church Notes: 12thC church -- listed in Mérimée [PA00105489]: "Eglise romane [...] Murs et fenêtres doivent dater du 12e siècle. Les seuls éléments sculptés sont les chapiteaux des quatre angles de la croisée. L'édifice a été restauré sous Louis XIII. Les murs conservent la trace d'inscriptions gravées au 17e siècle. Elles font principalement allusion à la ruine de l'édifice par les Protestants en 1567 et à sa restauration en 1613"

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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM86000232]: "Bénitier exécuté vers 1600 [...] Taille de pierre [...] Calvaire, I.N.R.I., soleil, lune, saint Hilaire". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP86W00163, AP12R058563, OA086_20238601040]. Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne (2002, v.1: 154) as one of two holy-water stoups, originally from the 12th century (?) but finished with ornamentation in the 17th century by the local abbé Olivier Siret; this one, on the left side as one enters the nave, is a monolithic stoup of quadrangular shape with cropped corners around the upper 2/3; the basin well is round and very shallow. Of the two visible sides in this source, one is ornamented with a large Crucifixion scene: Christ on the cross, a large INRI titulus across the top, the Sun to the left (the viewer's), and the Moon to the right; the chamfered or cropped corner is occupied by a bishop, Saint-Hilary, according to the inscription below; the cross is mounted on a three-step plinth, on which three figures kneel and are accompanied by scrolls containing their exhortations; the next side -to the right of the viewer- contains a small cross with figures to the sides at the bottom; the upper 2/3 are covered in an inscription: "ACQVA BEA[...] SALVS[...] VITA[...]". [NB: a second stoup is referred to, also ornamented by O. Siret, but no details are given in this source] [Flohic ref. no.: 86040508] [NB: the lettering of the inscriptions is also found on other parts of the church; one of the columns of the nave has similar lettering and the mixed capitals and small-case, and bears the date 1598, as shown in Mes voyages en France [http://www.mesvoyagesenfrance.com/D86/Leignes-sur-Fontaine.html] [accessed 20 December 2023] -- the inscription on the outer wall of the church, to the right of the portal, is also very similar [cf. Mémoire [ref.: AP12R058561] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP12R058561] [accessed 20 December 2023]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.505692, 0.77776

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 30′ 20.49″ N, 0° 46′ 39.94″ E

UTM: 31T 329503 5152635

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [Most of the text is not legible in the source]

Inscription Location: 1) covering most of the side next to the Crucifixion 2) on the Crucifxion cross 3) on the scrolls issuing from the kneeling figures in the Crucifixion scene 4) below the bishop's figure on the chamfer

Inscription Text: 1) [partial transcription of the main inscription: "ACQVA / BEA[...] / SALVS[...] / VITA[...]"] 2) "INRI" 3) [N/A] 4) "SA[n]CTO / HILARI"

Inscription Source: Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne (2002, v.1: ill. on p. 154)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne, Paris: FLOHIC, 2002