Issy l'Eveque / Issy-l'Évêque

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09586ISS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur d'Issy-l'Évêque
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00113298]
Church Address: Pl. de l'Église, 71760 Issy-l'Évêque, France
Site Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the junction of the D25 and the D42, 40-45 km SW of Autun
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Autun, Chalon et Mâcon
Font Notes:
Described in Drake (2002: 66-67) as a Romanesque baptismal font consisting of "two pieces, both octagonal, though not of matching stones [Drake's footnote here indicates that the original base may be missing, the current one being a replacement]. The bowl is absolutely plain except for a moulding around the bottom of each vertical face, below which it slopes steeply with a slight curvature to meet the top of the support which is moulded at the top in two steps to match the bottom of the bowl." Drake (ibid.) points out the similarity of this font with the one at Précy-Notre-Dame, in the Aube département [cf. corresponding Index entry]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 574419 5173111
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.707415, 3.973574
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 42′ 26.69″ N, 3° 58′ 24.86″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 66-67, and 67 fn47