Allouis
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cher-roman, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Cher-roman [http://cher.roman.free.fr/allouis/allouis.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Symac, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2009 by Symac [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F-18500-Allouis-église.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: only the basin is original
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cher-roman, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Cher-roman [http://cher.roman.free.fr/allouis/allouis.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 20378ALL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: 4 Place de l'Église, 18500 Allouis, France -- Tel.: +33 2 48 59 22 02
Country Name: France
Location: Cher, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D20, NNE of Mehun-sur-Yèvre, NW of Bourges
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bourges
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: The church here is noted in [http://cher.roman.free.fr/allouis/allouis.html] [accessed 27 February 2016] as having a 11th-century font and mid-12th century frescoes in it. -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00096629] as a 12thC church extended and renovated in the 15th, 16th and 19thC
Font Notes:
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Noted in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]; the source dates the font to "peut-être un peu postérieure" than the 11th century. Noted and illustrated in [http://cher.roman.free.fr/allouis/allouis.html] [accessed 27 February 2016] as a 11th-century font. The font consists of a rather crude cylindrical basin decorated with a shallow arcade of blind round arches on very thin columns; raised on a modern pedestal base. No font cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.1666, 2.22677
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 9′ 59.76″ N, 2° 13′ 36.37″ E
UTM: 31T 441400 5223968
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round