Angouleme No. 2 / Angoulême / Engoleime / Engoulaeme
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view of basin
Scene Description: the modern font: the lovely carving harking back to some of the best art on medieval fonts
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - east view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de la ville d'Angoulême et la cathédrale depuis le golf de l'Hirondelle"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2006 by Jack ma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angouleme.jpg] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font in the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font in the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font
Scene Description: showing themes and styles that would have made a medieval font proud
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 May 2016)
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font in the baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 15 May 2016)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20556ANG
Church/Chapel: Eglise cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 18 Rue Fénelon, 16000 Angoulême, France -- Tel.: +33 5 45 37 38 13
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located at the N10-N14 crossroads, 110 km ENE of Bordeaux, 100 km W of Limoges
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Angoulême
Historical Region: Charente
Century and Period: 11th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: first cathedral on site 4thC; destroyed by Clovis; new cathedral 560; destroyed by Vikings; new cathedral consecrated 1017; replaced 1128; restored by Paul Abadie 1866-1885 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104203]
Present font is noted and illustrated in the Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. [http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=47157] [accessed 17 May, 2016]. Although a modern work its carving replicates themes and styles found on medieval fonts. [NB: a font of the 12th-13th century now at the parish church in Souffrignac is said to have originated in this cathedral -- cf. Index entry for Souffrignac]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
45.648889,
0.151667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
45° 38′ 56″ N,
0° 9′ 6″ E
UTM: 31T 278058 5058984