Ambazac / Ambaciaco / Embasac

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ambazac - Église Saint-Antoine - Nef"

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view of stoup - northwest side

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Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by S. Lefevre, in Mémoire [ IVR74_00871294XA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1071/ivr74_00871294xa_p.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2016]

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view of stoup - south side

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Image Source: photograph taken in 2000 by S. Lefevre, in Mémoire [IVR74_00870898X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1071/ivr74_00870898x_p.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20472AMB
Church/Chapel: Elglise paroissiale Saint-Antoine
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Location: place de l'Église, 87240 Ambazac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 55 56 60 55
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located on the D5, just S of Saint-Sylvestre, E of Bonnac-la-Côte, 21 km NNE of Limoges
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Limoges
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original church ca. 1086; re-built 12thC; modified late-15thC; present church mostly late-18thC; modified late 19thC;
Former 12th-century capital from the old church here fashioned out as holy-water stoup. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM87000753]: "Chapiteau à palmettes de style roman probablement du 12e siècle, date de la plus ancienne phase construction de l'édifice, transformé en bénitier. [...] Une petite cuvette rectangulaire a été creusée sur le dessus du chapiteau, qui semble solidaire du haut de sa colonne et a été scellé sur un socle rectangulaire. [...] Entrelacs de tiges et de feuilles en forme de palmettes, mais la sculpture très fruste est a peine esquissée."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: capital-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Depth: 6 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 59.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 48 x 53 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM87000753]