Saint-Estephe No. 1 / Saint-Estèphe / St-Estephe / St-Estèphe / Roullet-St-Estèphe
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09025STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Estèphe
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located on the D-424, 1.5 km W of Roullet, with which now shares the jurisdiction, about 15 km SW of Angoulême
Font Location in Church: In the nave, built into the N wall, near the door
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: church of the late 11th century, modified in the 12th and 13th; indexed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104477]
Font Notes:
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Described in Ranquet (1940): monolithic baptismal font, probably of the 11th century, partly built into the north wall of the nave; the basin is square, with a round well, made of local limestone; the angles are decorated with columns; this same source notes that the capitals of these columns bear ornamentation but that they are now [ca. 1940] too worn to distinguish the motifs; the same is true of other apparent ornamentation on the basin sides, the only identifiable one being a band of saw-tooth. [cf. Index entry for St-Estèphe No. 2 for a holy-water stoup in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.5795, 0.0146
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 34′ 46.2″ N, 0° 0′ 52.56″ E
UTM: 31T 267091 5051665
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (local)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 77 cm
Height of Basin Side: 48 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 48 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Ranquet (1940: 10) *[NB: this is the height of the visible part; the bottom is partly buried in the ground]
REFERENCES
Ranquet, E. du, "Saint-Estèphe", 1940, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société Archéologique et Historique de la Charente, 1940, pp. 3-30; p. 10