Saint-Leger-du-Bois / Saint-Léger-du-Bois / Saint-Ligier-du-Bois

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design element - patterns - oval-in-socket

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph, "Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure" [(NUMP) MH0022308] taken before 1927 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00022308] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0704/sap01_mh00022308_p.jpg] [accessed 4 September 2017]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles; their tongues (?) forming the handles of the basin; at least one broken off.

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph, "Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure" [(NUMP) MH0022308] taken before 1927 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00022308] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0704/sap01_mh00022308_p.jpg] [accessed 4 September 2017]

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view of church exterior - east view

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in [www.stleger.info/les72StLeger/region6/images/71a.doleances/71a - fontsbaptismaux.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the rim-buffet cover partially visible here

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph, "Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure" [(NUMP) MH0022308] taken before 1927 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00022308] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0704/sap01_mh00022308_p.jpg] [accessed 4 September 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20673LEG
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Léger
Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
Church Location: 71360 Saint-Léger-du-Bois, France
Country Name: France
Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Directions to Site: Located on the D26, between Viévy (Côte-d'Or) (N) and Curgy (S), 14 km NE of Autun
Historical Region: Vallée de la Drée, Grand Autunois Morvan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: ancient priory chapel 13thC (?) dependent on a nearby monastery; became parsih church 18thC; expanded 19thC; [source: www.pastourisme71.com/fiches_eglises_a_imprimer/St Leger du Bois.pdf [accessed 23 July 2016]
Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM71000618]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Bandeau orné d'olives, et interrompu par quatre masques dont la langue forme des anses [...] 12e siècle". Noted as "fonts baptismaux classés aux Monuments Historiques en 1910" [www.pastourisme71.com/fiches_eglises_a_imprimer/St Leger du Bois.pdf] [accessed 23 July 2016]. Baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin with four heads set at 90-degree angles of the upper rim; from the mouths of these heads issue round piping [tongues?] in the manner of handles; between the heads there is a band of oval-in-socket pattern; plain cylindrical pedestal base; circular lower base, also plain. The wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type, cylindrical and painted. Illustrated in the web site 'Cahier de doléances et plaintes de Saint-Léger-du-Bois [www.stleger.info/les72StLeger/region6/71a.doleances.htm] [accessed 23 July 2016].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM71000618]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted wood; modern?