Lacommande / Commande d’Aubertin / Espitau deu Faget d’Aubertii / Hôpital du Faget d’Aubertin / Lacomanda /
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human figure - head, face or mask
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: notice the blocked drain hole
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Lacommande (Pyr-Atl, Fr) church of the Commanderie, actual parish church"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lacommande_(Pyr-Atl,_Fr)_L'église_de_la_Commanderie.JPG] [accessed 17 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: the absidiole with the round window houses the baptismal font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Myrabella, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2013 by Myrabella [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Sainte-Blaise_Lacommande_chevet.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2014]
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view of church interior - north aisle - apse
Scene Description: with the medieval font in it; the round window is on the east wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Myrabella, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2013 by Myrabella [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Sainte-Blaise_Lacommande_oculus.jpg] [accessed 17 June 2014]
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view of font - northeast side
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view of font - southwest side
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view of font - west side
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the north apse, east end
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19279LAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Blaise [formerly Eglise de la Commanderie]
Church Patron Saints: St. Blaise [aka Blaize]
Church Location: 64360 Lacommande, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located at the D146-D34 crossroads, in the canton de Lasseube, Communauté de communes de Lacq
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: original church here probably mid-12thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00084420]: "église romane [...] porte d'entrée de cette nef se trouve sur le pignon ouest. Elle est surmontée de trois personnages sculptés, d'un chrisme et d'autres ornements dégradés. L'entrée actuelle se fait au nord par une porte du 17e siècle [...] chapiteaux d'époque romane sont historiés (jongleurs jouant de l'olifant, musiciens, danseuse, sagittaires, oiseaux à tête humaine...)
Font Notes:
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By contrast with some of the magnificent original capitals in this church the baptismal font is quite modest; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with a single human face on the underbowl, on the west side; there is no cover apparent but the upper rim of the basin has evidence of anchorage points for an old cover, as well as some damage related to it; the central drain hole has been blocked; the northeast and southwest sides of the basin show damage, but it appears to be related to corrosion of the stone itself, rather than externally inflicted; it is raised on a plain round pedestal base that appears later or modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.277166, -0.508617
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 16′ 37.8″ N, 0° 30′ 31.02″ W
UTM: 30T 702180 4794623
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?