Palisse

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Results: 13 records

design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: seen here partially on the left panel of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Églises de Corrèze, 2016

Image Source: undated digital image in Églises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/images/p/palisse-2.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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design element - motifs - cartouche?

Scene Description: two oblong shapes, the lower one bulging out and with a hole in the centre

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03124_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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design element - motifs - circle - in a square

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03124_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: seen here on the rightmost panel of the basin: human? animal? -- it appears to have been hacked off

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03123_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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human figure - demi-figure - holding object?

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel: the hands appear to be holding an object against the chest

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Églises de Corrèze, 2016

Image Source: undated digital image in Églises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/images/p/palisse-2.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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human figure - orant

Scene Description: seen here in the right panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Églises de Corrèze, 2016

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symbol - cross - Greek - pattée

Scene Description: the top of this basin side shows damage characteristically caused by cover hardware, a metal staple in the upper rim expanding and splitting the stone

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03124_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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unidentified

Scene Description: seen here partially on the rightmost panel of the basin; a human figure?

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03124_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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view of church exterior - corbel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jon Lanthanberg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2012 by Jon Lanthanberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palisse_Eglise_2.JPG] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: showing the detached bell tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jon Lanthanberg, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2012 by Jon Lanthanberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palisse_Eglise_1.JPG] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Églises de Corrèze, 2016

Image Source: undated digital image in Églises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/images/p/palisse-1.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2017

Image Source: digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03123_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image in Mémoire [NUMP 22L03123] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap08_22l03124_p.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20827PAL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martial
Church Patron Saints: St. Martial
Church Location: 19160 Palisse, France -- Tel.: 05 55 95 97 15
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D979, SW of Ussel, NNW of Mauriac, WSW of Clermont-Ferrand
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle
Historical Region: Gorges de la haute Dordogne, Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099825]: "12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 14e siècle […] remaniée au 15e […] clocher est isolé mais rattaché à l'église par un mur bas."
Listed and illustrated in Mémoire [refs.: 22L03123, 22L03124]: "Fonts baptismaux : pierre, cuve polygonale sur pied cylindrique, décor en bas-relief, personnages [et] motifs géométriques". Noted and illustrated in Églises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/images/p/palisse-2.jpg] [accessed 13 January 2017]. The font consists of an octagonal basin wih vertical panels decorated as follows [L->R]: ball motif arrangement; human demi-figure holding object?; human demi-figure orant; unidentified motif probably hacked off; Greek potent cross; circle in a square; geometric motif with a large bulging oblong object with a hole in its centre; unidentified, perhaps another figure; the octagonal basin is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base that may not be the original. There is no font cover present but one of the sides of the upper basin, the one with the cross symbol, has been badly damaged in a way probably caused by the expansion of hardware from an old cover, a metal staple of some sort.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.4188, 2.2067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 25′ 7.68″ N, 2° 12′ 24.12″ E
UTM: 31T 437933 5029782

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining