Sauxillanges No. 2

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in Roch Jaja [http://roch.jaja.free.fr/spip.php?rubrique281] [accessed 6 September 2013]

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: seen from Place du 8 mai

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2010 by Technob105 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sauxillagnes.JPG] [accessed 6 September 2013]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18649SAU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre Dame de l'Assomption [formerly St. Peter?]

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary [formerly St. Peter?]

Country Name: France

Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located 10 km off (E) the A75 at Issoire, 30 km SSE of Clermont-Ferrand

Historical Region: Pays de Sauxillanges

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: original abbey here founded by Guillaume, duke of Aquitaine, in 917; the abbey church was destroyed during the Revolution, but some parts of the abbey survived -- there may have been a church dedicated to St. Peter here by the 10thC

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The present church has a wall-mounted stoup that resembles the basin of an old baptismal font, and may have originally been one; it is a fragment of an octagonal besin decorated on the sides with large floral motifs, and rosettes on the underbowl; the sides of the basin were originally framed in mouldings, but much of the top has been broken off; there appears to be a patterned moulding at the bottom of the underbowl, but it is much damaged. The present font is a tall and narrow polygonal tub of modern appearance; raised on a short polygonal base and a round plinth; the plinth itself may be medieval. A conical metal cover is on theis font; also modern. [NB: we have no information on the font(s) of the earlier church here]. There are remains of an early church here dedicated to St. John [ancienne chapelle Saint-Jean-Baptiste].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 529037 5044230

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: polygonal (wall-mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal