Altillac / Altilhac / Artillac

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animal - mammal - lion - gardant

Scene Description: one of the three lions of the base; with prey? -- Source caption in Palissy [ref.: PM19000498]: "Détail d'une statuette de lion à crinière formant pied de la cuve baptismale."

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 28 January 2017]

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animal - mammal - lion - gardant

Scene Description: one of three lions of the base -- Source caption in Palissy [ref.: PM19000498]: "Détail d'une statuette de lion (ou de tigre ? : pas de crinière), la gueule ouverte, formant pied de la cuve baptismale."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eglises de Corrèze, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 28 January 2017]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken by Jean-François Amelot, in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 28 January 2017]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altillac_église.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altillac_église_porte_sud.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2015

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view of church exterior - west portal

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2015 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altillac_église_portail_ouest.JPG] [accessed 16 April 2016]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eglises de Corrèze, 2017

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20502ALT
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 19120 Altillac, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D940, between Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (W) and Peyrissac (E), 30 km SE of Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: 14th, 16thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099650]; modified 18th and 19thC
J.-B. Poulbrière, Inspecteur de la Corrèze, in his report ["compte rendu"] to the 44th Congrès archéologique de France (Paris, 1878: 494) writes of the marble font at Altillac, and suggests the lions of the base could date the font as early as the 10th century: "fonds, en marbre, d'Altillac, près Beaulieu, dont les lions de support trahissent une époque fort ancienne et qui pourrait bien remonter jusqu'au Xe siècle." 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 16 April 2016]. This font and its cover are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM19001279]: "Cuve baptismale sur trois pieds en forme de lions, en marbre noir, du 12 siècle. Couvercle monumental en forme d'armoire, en bois sculpté et peint, réalisé en 1700 sans doute par un sculpteur local, peut-être commandité par la famille d'Arche." The font itself in Palissy [ref.: PM19000498]: "cuve circulaire en marbre noir est supportée par trois statuettes zoomorphes de même matière [...] cuve [...] simplement moulurée ; les trois statuettes représentent des lions trapus, l'un d'eux ouvre la gueule [...] 12e siècle [...] oeuvre restaurée en 1975 par Marcel Maimponte (raccords de sculpture, nettoyage)". Noted and illustrated in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 28 January 2017]: "l’église dont le plus ancien vestige est la cuve baptismale en trachyte, peut-être exécutée en Auvergne au XIIe siècle." This same source adds: "Le maître-autel, représentant des scènes de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament, fut exécuté, en 1676, par l’atelier des Tournié de Gourdon, à qui est peut-être due la curieuse tourelle ornée de bas-reliefs, datée de 1700, surmontant les fonts-baptismaux." Baptismal font of black stone consisting of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with mouldings at top and bottom, and raised on three lions. Octagonal rim-buffet cover of painted wood with scenes, inscription and 1700 date.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.9778, 1.8473
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 58′ 40.08″ N, 1° 50′ 50.28″ E
UTM: 31T 409115 4981131

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, trachyte? / marble? (black)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 94 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57.5 cm*
Height of Base: 31 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81.4 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * given in Palissy [ref.: PM19000498] as: "h = 81,4 ; l = 94 (cuve : h = 57,5, d = 80 (à la base), épaisseur = 14 (au moins) ; lions : h = 31, l = 40, la = 16"

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1700
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type; octagonal; painted wood; dated 1700 in an inscription; listed in Palissy [ref.: PM19001279]