Saint-Leger-du-Bois / Saint-Léger-du-Bois / Saint-Ligier-du-Bois
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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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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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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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view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St-Leger.info, 2016
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]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20673LEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Léger
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]
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]
Church Address: 71360 Saint-Léger-du-Bois, France
Site Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off 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 Notes:
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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?
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- II, Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 1893, pp. 373; [ref.: PM71000618]