Chapelaude No. 1 / La Chapelaude
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "De l’époque romane subsiste encore la cuve baptismale en granite ornée d’une grecque."
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Image Source: digital image in the Commune de La Chapelaude [https://www.lachapelaude03.fr/histoire-et-patrimoine/] [accessed 12 August 2024]
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view of basin
Scene Description: a large cauldron-like basin not mentioned in any of our sources: irregular, eroded and damaged; the upper rim has indentation for a cover
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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design element - patterns - fretwork
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view of font in context
Scene Description: a large cauldron-like basin not mentioned in any of our sources: irregular, eroded and damaged; the upper rim has indentation for a cover
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - west façade
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, 2005
Image Source: digital image in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University [https://mcid.mcah.columbia.edu/panorama/1617_bourb2005_lachapelade_vr_001] [acc essed 12 August 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, 2005
Image Source: digital image in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University [https://mcid.mcah.columbia.edu/panorama/1617_bourb2005_lachapelade_vr_001] [acc essed 12 August 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19068CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas de La Chapelaude
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: church originally a mid-11thC priory. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093038]: "Vers 1059, le lieu est donné à l'abbaye de Saint-Denis qui y fonda le prieuré de la chapelle Sainte-Aude, et qui, chef-lieu d'une seigneurie justiciaire dont dépendirent des paroisses environnantes, connut durant tout le Moyen-Age une très grande prospérité avant d'être ruiné, [...] L'édifice du 12e siècle se compose d'une nef à trois travées"
Church Address: 4 Pl. du 11 Novembre 1918, 03380 La Chapelaude, France
Site Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D149, 15-20 km NW of Montluçon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Moulins
Historical Region: Pays d'Huriel
Font Notes:
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Reported in an oral presentation by Georges de Soultrait to the 21st session of the 1854 Congrès archéologique de France, as one of five Romanesque fonts in the Allier; this one a large round granite basin decorated with a moulding at the upper rim, and an imbrication [fretwork?] pattern ["une sorte de lambel continu"]; raised on a plain base. Mérimée [ref.: PA00093038] lists a Romanesque circular stoup on an octagonal base at the west entranceway [="A l'entrée occidentale, présence d'un bénitier roman, circulaire, reposant sur une base octogonale"]. Soultrait (ibid.) notes it is somewhat similar to the font at nearby Huriel, both of which he dates to the 12th century. There is another large cauldron-like basin not mentioned in any of our sources: irregular, eroded and damaged; the upper rim has indentation for a cover [cf. ImagesArea]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting these objects
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 462009 5140922
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.42201, 2.502801
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 25′ 19.24″ N, 2° 30′ 10.09″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Société française d'archéologie, Congrès archéologique de France (XXIe session, Moulins, France, 1854), Paris: Derache, 1855, p. 119