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angel

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by Florenne, in Mémoire [ref.: AP69W00428] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1403/sap83_69w00428_p.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by Florenne, in Mémoire [ref.: AP69W00428] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1403/sap83_69w00428_p.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: showing the rounded apse just off the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xavier Caré, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2011 by Xavier Caré [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clocher_Île_Barbe_Lyon.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2014 by Stockholm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_sur_l'île_Barbe.JPG] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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view of stoup

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1969 by Florenne, in Mémoire [ref.: AP69W00429] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1403/sap83_69w00429_p.jpg] [accessed 3 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20488LYO
Church/Chapel: Eglise [chapelle] Notre-Dame de Grâce [ancienne abbaye de l'Ile Barbe]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: place Notre-Dame / place de Saint-Rambert, 69009 Lyon 9ème, France -- Tél. : 04 78 83 98 51
Country Name: France
Location: Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe became part of Lyon in 1963; it is located now in its 9e arrondissement, but was originally in the 5e]
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Lyon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cycled capital], Romanesque [altered]
Church Notes: former abbey church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00118134]: "Principal vestige de l'ancienne abbaye de l'Ile Barbe [...] Clocher, choeur et mur nord de la fin du 11e siècle, cloître des 12e et 13e siècles"
Holy-water stoup fashioned out of a former 12th-century white marble capital decorated with an angel and acanthus foliage; stands on a square pedestal base with fluted pattern on the sides. Palissy [ref.: PM69000368]: "Bénitier creusé dans un chapiteau [marbre (blanc)] décoré de feuilles d'acanthe et portant, sur l'une de ses faces, un ange descendant du ciel [...] 12e siècle" [NB: the Palissy entry links to the wrong image, one of the 5thC capitals in the Tresor de Saint-Jean] [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.797416, 4.833609
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 47′ 50.7″ N, 4° 50′ 0.99″ E
UTM: 31T 642497 5073174

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (white)
Font Shape: capital-shaped
Basin Total Height: 38 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM69000368]: "h = 38 ; la = 68 (Largeur à l'abaque) ; Dimension à l'astragale : la = 50"