Saxi-Bourdon / Saxy Bourdon / Saxy-Bourdon

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Scene Description: date: 1628 [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2009 by Mmirault [www.gennievre.net/wiki/index.php5/Fichier:Eglise-Saxi_Bourdon.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 18594SAX

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léger

Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]

Church Location: 58330 Saxi-Bourdon

Country Name: France

Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: Located S of the road between Nevers and Saint-Saulge, ENE of Nevers

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers

Historical Region: Nivernais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1628

Century and Period: 17th century(early)

Church Notes: church "construite sur l'emplacement d'un édifice de style roman construit au XIVe siècle. Brûlée par les huguenots en 1570, elle est presque entièrement reconstruite en 1603 et 1613 grâce à Etienne Masquin, prêtre né à Saxi et mort à 58 ans en 1637" [www.gennievre.net/wiki/index.php5/Eglise_Saxi_Bourdon] [accessed 11 August 2013]

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM58000481]: "bénitier [...] fonte de fer [...] placé sur un socle en bois [...] Date : 1628". Noted in [http://bduquesne.perso.sfr.fr/planssge/pages/histsaxy.htm] [accessed 11 August 2013]: "Le bénitier en fonte portant des monogrammes et la date de 1628 par l'abbé Jounet lue 1678 par de Soultrait".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 537151 5211826

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, cast iron

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM58000481]:]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Location: basin side?

Inscription Text: [1628]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]