Sainte-Meille nr. Escalans
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B01: design element - motifs - roundel
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the large stoup is visible in the foreground, left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © www.sudouest.fr, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph March 2010, in SudOuest Blogs, Gabarret-Cazaubon [http://gabarret.blogs.sudouest.fr/media/01/02/4138421697.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17623MEI
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Jérôme et Sainte-Radegonde, Sainte-Meille
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Jerome & St. Radegund [originally dedicated to St. Meille [aka Eumélie, Eumalia]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA40001491]: "L'église, d'abord dédiée à sainte Meille ou Eumélie (sancta Eumalia) , puis à saint Jérôme et sainte Radegonde, apparaît tardivement dans les textes. L'édifice actuel n'est pas antérieur à la fin du Moyen Age, peut-être au 15e siècle"
Church Address: Chemin Départemental 59, Escalans, France
Site Location: Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D59, 5-6 km N of Escalans, 4 km NE of Gabarret, about 45 km ENE of Mont-de-Marsan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Aire et Dax
Historical Region: Aquitaine / Landes d'Armagnac
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Described in the Palissy database [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 26 August 2011] [réf.: IM40003306]: holy-water stoup made of limestone and dated perhaps in the 17th century; consists of an egg-shaped basin raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; the stoup is plain except for a circle on the side, which the catalogue suggests may have been originally intended to house a painted motif, perhaps armorial. The same source reports a modern baptismal font in this church ["partie non étudiée] [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church, probably 15th-century, like the fabric of the building itself].
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.0133936, 0.0414696
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 59 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 57 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM40003306]
REFERENCES
- 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.