Leignes-sur-Fontaine No. 2

Results: 2 records

inscription

Scene Description: on two of the visible sides here

view of stoup

INFORMATION

FontID: 07703LEI
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 [on the right side of the entrance?]
Century and Period: 12th century [altered stoup], Late Romanesque [stoup]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: re-carved by the abbé Olivier Siret
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"
Listed in Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM86000232] [NB: the entry contans the references to images of the two stoups in this church. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA086_20238601041]. Mentioned 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; no other information is given in the source about this one, on the right side as one enters the nave. This stoup is monolithic polygonal [hexagonal?] tapering towards the bottom; the inner well is round; of the three visible sides in the source two of them are inscribed, one of the sides bearing a shield-like symbol above the inscription, the next side to the right with a Maltese cross at the top. [NB: the other stoup in this church -of which we have more information- is entered in this Index as Leignes-sur-Fontaine No. 1]

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: hexagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on two sides of the basin
Inscription Text: 1) "AqVA / bNEdICT" [some letters reversed] 2) "+ IESVS / XPS-FIL[?] / DEI-VI[?] / MISE[?]"
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea"

REFERENCES

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