Avon-les-Roches No. 2

Main image for Avon-les-Roches No. 2

Image copyright © Julianna Lees, 2009

Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

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head - grotesque or fantastic

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julianna Lees, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

human figure - head - male - bearded

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julianna Lees, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph received from Julianna Lees
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 3 February 2008)

view of stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 17 January 2008 in Mémoire [ref.: AP37W00046] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP37W00046] [accessed 18 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of stoup

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

view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier [...] 11e siècle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2008
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 14256AVO
Object Type: Stoup?
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located in the canton de L'Île-Bouchard, arrondissement de Chinon, about 60 kms SW of Tours down the D757
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes
Century and Period: 11th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julianna Lees for her photographs of this stoup
Font Notes:
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.1568, 0.449
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 9′ 24.48″ N, 0° 26′ 56.4″ E
UTM: 31T 306632 5225746

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*