Avon-les-Roches No. 2

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human figure - head - male - bearded

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

human figure - head - grotesque or fantastic

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier [...] 11e siècle"

Image Source: edited detail of a 2011 digital image [123700904NUCA] 18 October 2012 by Guy Du Chazaud, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA037123700904] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier [...] 11e siècle]

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2008 in Mémoire [ref.: AP37W00046] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP37W00046] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14256AVO

Object Type: Stoup?

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Romanesque

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de Avon-les-Roches

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA37000292] : "La première mention de l'église d'Avon date de 1088 au moment où l'église fait l'objet d'une donation à l'abbaye de Noyers. Dans la première moitié du 12e siècle elle devint propriété de l'abbaye de Beaumont-les-Tours. Du 12e siècle subsistent le porche et le portail sud, une partie du mur sud de la nef et le clocher."

Church Address: 15 Rue de Feunet, 37220 Avon-les-Roches, France -- Tel.: +33 2 47 58 54 07

Site Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D138, in the canton de L'Île-Bouchard, arrondissement de Chinon, about 60 km SW of Tours

Additional Comments: abandoned stoup / disused stoup

Font Notes: Click to view

This holy-water stoup or font of the 11th century is listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM37000034]: "Bénitier [...] En forme de section de colonne, il est légèrement amenuisé vers sa base [...] 11e siècle [...] H = 64 ; d = 70"; the entry gives the locarion as "cour de la cure"; the illustration shows the object on the ground, in a garden or yard. A recent photograph received by BSI shows the stoup inside a building [the church?]. The tub-shaped, roughly cylindrical [it is quite irregular] basin has four heads at 90-degree angles; one is grotesque; one other is a human male, bearded. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: IVR24_20003700348XA].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julianna Lees for her photographs of this stoup

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 306632 5225746

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.1568, 0.449

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 9′ 24.48″ N, 0° 26′ 56.4″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.