Trimouille / La Trimouille

INFORMATION

FontID: 07714TRI
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Pierre
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: France
Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement de Montmorillon
Font Location in Church: In the porche, now serving as holy-water stoup
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Described and illustrated in Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne (2002, v. 2: 990) as a former mill stone -either Gallo-Roman or medieval- converted into a baptismal font at the time of 'l'abbé Reix' [?] in the Middle Ages; it is of an octagonal pedestal shape with a round inner well; an indentation around the upper rim must have once accommodated the lid, and there is a hole in the stone towards the top perhaps for the hardware of the lid; one of th sides shows an orifice about half-way down [drainage?]; there is damage to one of the upper corners. This same source informs that the object serves now as holy-water stoup in the porch of the church [Flohic ref. no.: 86250809]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 48 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 76 cm
Notes on Measurements: Le Patrimoine des communes de la Vienne (2002, v. 2: 990) *[not clear whether the diameter refers to the inside well of the outer perimeter of the octagon - more likely the latter in view of the proportions shown in the illustration]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: the upper rim is indented as if to accommodate a lid

REFERENCES

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