Saint-Estephe No. 2 / Saint-Estèphe / St-Estephe / St-Estèphe / Roullet-St-Estèphe

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B01: design element - patterns

Scene Description: with marked staves and rings, as in a wooden barrel

INFORMATION

FontID: 09026EST
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: Located now [ca. 1940] outside the church, in the public square; earlier it was located near the baptismal font itself
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: church of the late 11th century, modified in the 12th and 13th; indexed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104477]
Described in Ranquet (1940): a barrel-shaped object that used to be next to the baptismal font in this church [cf. Index entry for St-Estèphe No. 1] but was later moved outside, to the public square. Ranquet describes how the exterior of this stoup has been carved to imitate the staves and metal rings of a wooden barrel, even to a false hole on the side to resemble that of a barrel [the actual drain whole is on the bottom end of the stoup. According to Ranquet (ibid.) this stoup is made from the same stone as two measures dated to the 16th century that served to collect the tithes, one for grain/dry goods, the other for liquids, and therefore suggests the same date for the former stoup.

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
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: barrel-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes for details]
Diameter (includes rim): 53 cm
Height of Basin Side: 53 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 53 cm
Notes on Measurements: Ranquet (1940: 10)

REFERENCES

Ranquet, E. du, "Saint-Estèphe", 1940, Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société Archéologique et Historique de la Charente, 1940, pp. 3-30; r["References"]