Barrou
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view of basin
Scene Description: drum from a former Gallo-Roman column re-cut as baptismal font in the 12thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Robert Malnoury, in Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP (1988), Mémoire [NUMI: 88372845X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1952/ivr24_88372845x_p.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Craig, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2012 by Jim Crag [http://loirevalleyexperiences.blogspot.com/2012/04/church-on-sundaybarrou.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the two fonts, re-cycled Gallo-Roman and modern, are located at the west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Craig, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2012 by Jim Crag [http://loirevalleyexperiences.blogspot.com/2012/04/church-on-sundaybarrou.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jim Craig, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2012 by Jim Crag [http://loirevalleyexperiences.blogspot.com/2012/04/church-on-sundaybarrou.html] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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view of object
![one of several drums from former Gallo-Roman columns -- Source caption: "4 tambours de colonnes gallo-romaines trouvés en 1967 dans les fouilles de l'ancienne église de Barrou (détruite) située dans le lit de la Creuse [...] Cannelures rondes à listel pour les tambours 1 et 3 ; rudentures rondes et baguettes pour le tambour 2 ; cannelures rondes à listel et rudentures rondes à la base pour le tambour 4 [...] dimensions du tambour 1 : h=58, d=72 ; du tambour 2 : h=61, d=76 ; du tambour 3 : h=49, d=70 ; du tambour 4 : h=40, d=76" (Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1988)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160227007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one of several drums from former Gallo-Roman columns -- Source caption: "4 tambours de colonnes gallo-romaines trouvés en 1967 dans les fouilles de l'ancienne église de Barrou (détruite) située dans le lit de la Creuse [...] Cannelures rondes à listel pour les tambours 1 et 3 ; rudentures rondes et baguettes pour le tambour 2 ; cannelures rondes à listel et rudentures rondes à la base pour le tambour 4 [...] dimensions du tambour 1 : h=58, d=72 ; du tambour 2 : h=61, d=76 ; du tambour 3 : h=49, d=70 ; du tambour 4 : h=40, d=76" (Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1988)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Robert Malnoury, in Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP (1988), Palissy [ref.: IM37000715]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: drum from a former Gallo-Roman column re-cut as baptismal font in the 12thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1988
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Robert Malnoury, in Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP (1988), Mémoire [NUMI: 88372845X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1952/ivr24_88372845x_p.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20379BAR
Object Type: Other
Object Details: column, Gallo-Roman
Font Century and Period/Style: 2th - 5th century [re-cut 12th century], Gallo-Roman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Maurice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Notes: Listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA37001153]: original church here founded late-5thC; 11thC church washed away by the Creuse ca. 1760; present church 18th-19thC; restored 1926
Church Address: 1-3 Place de l'Église, 37350 Barrou, France
Site Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D750, 20 km E of Chatellerault, 60 km S of Tours, in the canton Descartes, arr. Loches, near the departmental border with Vienne and the région Poitou-Charentes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Historical Region: Touraine du Sud / Poitou-Charentes
Additional Comments: re-cycled font? (drum from a former Gallo-Roman column re-cut as baptismal font in the 12thC) -- disappeared font? (the from the 5th-11thC church destroyed in 1760)
Font Notes:
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Listed in the Inventaire général (1988) Palissy [ref.: IM37000716]: limestone baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin re-cut in the 12th century from the drum of a Gallo-Roman column [="Fonts baptismaux exécutés au 12e siècle (?) en remployant un tambour de colonne gallo romaine […] calcaire : taille directe, décor en bas relief"]. The outer surface is decorated with a leaf pattern. The present font in use is modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 330151 5192790
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cn*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Depth: 33 cm*
Basin Total Height: 53 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Région Centre - Inventaire général, ADAGP (1988)