Saint-Chabrais
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design element - architectural - arch or window
Scene Description: iregular, in pairs, all around the basin
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Image Source: undated digital photograph in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: undated digital photograph in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: undated digital photograph in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is located at the far [west] end, hidden behind the right [north] bank of benches](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170217018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is located at the far [west] end, hidden behind the right [north] bank of benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © La Creuse secrète, 2017
Image Source: undated digital photograph in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © La Creuse secrète, 2017
Image Source: undated digital photograph in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monuments historiques; Conseil Général de la Creuse, CAOA, 2006
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2006 by Chloé Peiter, in Mémoire [NUMI 06230978NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1175/mhr74_06230978nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20995CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Caprais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the NW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Caprasius
Church Address: 1 Place de l Église, 23130 Saint-Chabrais, France
Site Location: Creuse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D997, halfway between Gouzon (NNE) and Chénérailles (SSW), E of Guéret
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM23000787]: "Cuve polygonale en granite [...] Décor d'arcades géminées [...] Moyen Age (?) ; Temps modernes (?)" [no measurements in the Palissy entry]. The font consists of an irregular polygonal [octagonal?] basin with pairs of uneven arches or windows on the sides; raised on a squat quadrangular base; both pieces of granite, but of different colour and coarseness. Modern cover of wood with double-orb and cross finial. The entry for this church in La Creuse secrète https://lacreusesecrete.dahut.fr/spip.php?article220 [accessed 17 February 2017] mentions "un bénitier en granit du 12e siècle", but probably refers to this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 438612 5109143
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.131965, 2.205221
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 7' 55" N, 2° 12' 18" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; orb-and-cross finial; modern