Saintes No. 2

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B01: Christ - monogram - IHS - in a cartouche

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BH01: angel - head

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BH02: angel - head

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view of basin - upper view

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: this area of the original transept is now at the west end of the church

view of stoup - southeast view

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view of stoup - south view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 17495SAI

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Baroque

Church / Chapel Name: Église priorale Saint-Eutrope [aka Basilique Saint-Eutrope -- since 1886]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the transept, N side

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eutrope (d. 475; bishop of Orange?)

Previous Font Location(s): The old Collège des Jésuites de Saintes

Church Notes: The original church dates from 1081; the nave of the upper church was pull down in 1803, so the transept is now at the west end. Although much of the original curch estructure has been changed, there are wonderful capitals remaining from the Romanesque period and the crypt, the "oldest religious bulding in Saintonge" is an "exact replica of the choir above" and houses a 4th?/6th? century sarcophagus with the relics of St-Eutrope. (a/p France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide (1985, p. 667). The crypte is really a funerary basilica dating originally to the 11th-century fundation of the church.

Church Address: 56 Rue Saint-Eutrope, 17100 Saintes, France

Site Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located on the left bank of the Charente river, off the A10, 33 km NE of Royan, 60 km E of La Rochelle, 100 km N of Bordeaux

Historical Region: Saintonge

Additional Comments: damaged stoup: recent damage

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Described and illustrated in the Palissy database [référence PM17000512] as a holy-water stoup probably from the old Jesuit college in this town; the suggested date given in Palissy is the 17th-18th century. On-site notes: the basin front has a cartouche with "HIS" in it; much damage to the basin sides; the local guide informed us that most of the damage to the stoup had been done recently -only a few years ago- and he actually found several pieces of it, including one of the angle heads, on the ground next to the stoup at the time. It consists of a basin that is oval-rectangular on the outside, with heads at the angles, the inner well oval-shaped as well and lead-lined.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 684091 5068594

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.7434, -0.6414

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 44′ 36.24″N, 0° 38′ 29.04″W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: oval, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: oval

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

Drainage System: none found

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm [max.]

Basin Total Height: 36 cm

Height of Central Column: 72 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Text: "IHS"