Douze / La Douze

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B01: design element - motifs - varied

Image Source: Isabelle Dubreu (La Douze, Dordogne)

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B01: human figure - male - standing

Image Source: Isabelle Dubreu (La Douze, Dordogne)

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Image Source: Isabelle Dubreu (La Douze, Dordogne)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 31 August 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09574DOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale

Country Name: France

Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the N89, in the area between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Sarlat-la-Canéda

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

Century and Period: 3rd - 5th century [re-used], Gallo-Roman [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Isabelle Dubreu, of the Association Histoire et Patrimoine de La Douze, and to the Mairie of La Douze, for the photographs of this object

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The web site of the Mairie of La Douze, Dordogne [www.la-douze.com/eglise.htm] informs that the baptismal font of the parish church is actually a stem of a Gallo-Roman column decorated with rosettes and ancient figures. The roughly cylindrical object was overturned, so the carving now shows upside down [cf. Index entry for Melbury Bubb, England, for another case of an old object over-turned and re-used as a baptismal font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round