Bellefond / Bèla Font
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] in Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/fonts-baptismaux-de-l-eglise-sainte-eutrope] [accessed 31 December 2013]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: ruins of the the priory building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henry Salomé, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2012 by Henry Salomé [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellefond_33_Église_Saint-Eutrope_09.jpg] [accessed 31 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: 1878 engraving by Léo Drouyn (1816-1896) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellefond_33_Église-1878-1326.png] [accessed 31 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henry Salomé, 2012
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henry Salomé, 2012
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the considerable damage around the upper rim and sides
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2013
Image Source: Négatif noir et blanc ; gélatino-bromure ; support pellicule, NUMP no. 69V01357, by Biraben, 1969 -- in Mémoire [ref.: AP69V01357]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18933BEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Eutrope de Bellefond [originally from the Chapelle de La Goilane]
Church Patron Saints: St. Eutropius of Saintes [aka Eutrope]
Church Location: 33760 Bellefond, France -- Tél : +33 5 56 23 94 79
Country Name: France
Location: Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D140, NE of Courpiac, SW of Jugazan, 10 km NE of Targon, 40 km ESE of Bordeaux -- La Goilane is located SW of Bellefond
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bordeaux
Historical Region: Entre-deux-Mers -- Le Targonnais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: originaly a priory church of regular Augustinian canons; taken over in 1186 by the monastery of La Sauve-Majeure -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00083141]: "Bellefond était primitivement un prieuré bâti par les chanoines réguliers de l'ordre de Saint-Augustin. En 1186, il fut soumis au monastère de la Sauve-Majeure. Durant les troubles du 16e siècle, d'importantes dégradations furent faites à l'église et aux bâtiments claustraux. En 1655, le prieuré fut uni au monastère des Feuillants de Bordeaux, qui le gardèrent jusqu'à la Révolution. Les parties inférieures du mur d'enceinte du prieuré, qui englobait l'église, le cimetière et les bâtiments claustraux, existent à peu près entièrement mais à l'état de ruines. L'église et les bâtiments claustraux durent être rebâtis à la fin du 12e siècle par les moines de la Sauve. L'église aurait dû se composer d'une longue nef terminée par une abside pentagonale. Deux bras de transept devaient lui donner la forme d'une croix latine. Le transept, l'abside et les absidioles ont été bâtis. La nef est restée à l'état de projet. Construction remaniée au 16e siècle. En 1863-1866, une importante restauration fut menée, modifiant profondément l'intérieur de l'édifice. Porte romane et contreforts plats du 12e ou 13e siècle."
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of a polygonal [hexagonal? octagonal?] basin, the sides not quite vertical but slightly splaying and decorated with window tracery: a pair of trefoiled windows under rounded arches and square frames; buttressed angles, several of them damaged, as is the moulded upper rim; on a pedestal base of similar shape (?), simpler tracery patterns on the sides. Over all an unbalanced awkwardly shaped vessel that has obviously had a rough existence. A local source [cf. infra] notes that it was originally the font of a nearby rural chapel now disappeared, at La Goilane [NB: another local source [http://bernard.fattore.free.fr/ [accessed 31 December 2013]] states that Bellefond [i.e., belle fontaine] was born around the water source, fountain or well of La Goilane]. Noted and illustrated in Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/fonts-baptismaux-de-l-eglise-sainte-eutrope] [accessed 31 December 2013]: "Les fonts baptismaux de l’église paroissiale de Bellefond proviennent de la chapelle de La Goilane, édifiée aux XVe et XVIe siècles, et détruite aujourd’hui. [...] deux parties séparées aujourd’hui : le pied et la cuve." This font is listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM33000082]: "Ces fonts se composent d'une cuve et d'un pied, aujourd'hui séparés [...] 14e siècle".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.765528, -0.170659
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 45′ 55.9″ N, 0° 10′ 14.37″ W
UTM: 30T 723895 4960759
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: polygonal
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal