Cazenac / Casenac

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Results: 7 records
design element - motifs - floral - rosette
design element - motifs - leaf
design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - west portal
view of church exterior - west view
view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: 18th-century?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOT, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by Mossot [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beynac-et-Cazenac_-_Église_Saint-Martial_de_Cazenac_-07.JPG] [accessed 8 June 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18500CAZ
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martial de Cazenac
Church Patron Saints: St. Martial
Country Name: France
Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located in the commune Beynac-et-Cazenac
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
Historical Region: Périgord noir
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Medieval
Church Notes: church inventoried in database Mérimée [ref.: PA00082384]: "12e siècle [...] Eglise romane à chevet plat avec transept. Clocher-mur à deux ouvertures. Porche en plein cintre mouluré. Sur la façade d'entrée, une cavité a été réalisée à 1, 50 mètres, probablement destinée à un fanal de cimetière. Le chevet à pignon pointu s'orne, sur son rampant, d'un animal sculpté (chien ?). Choeur, transept et chapelles sont voûtés sur croisées d'ogives."
Font Notes:
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Holy-water stoup consisting of a tapering square-to-octagonal basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, a rosette on the front side, and large leaves sprouting upwards from the underbowl; on a square base and lower base. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original 12th-century church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.874833, 1.055722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 52′ 29.4″ N, 1° 3′ 20.6″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square-to-octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square