Meymac No. 6

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Scene Description: source caption: "mesure à grain transformée en bénitier"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 1993

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1985 by Frédéric Magnoux, in Mémoire [NUMI 85190270X] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0505/ivr74_85190270x_p.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21019MEY
Church/Chapel: Ancienne abbatiale Saint-André-et-Saint-Léger
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew & St. Leger
Church Location: rue du Bûcher / av. Limousine, 19250 Meymac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 55 95 23 30
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located in the Plateau de Millevaches, 13 kms W of Ussel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; reported by the door of the N transept in 1982
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval
This object, identified in Palissy [ref.: PM19000271] as a former grain measure probably of the 14th or 1th century that was turned to use as holy-water stoup in the 18th century: "Cette pierre de mesure communale pour les céréales était utilisée à Meymac à la fin du Moyen Age, elle est remployée depuis le 19e siècle comme bénitier [...] La pierre monolithe est creusée ; en plus des éléments de support elle comporte un orifice circulaire [...] 14e siècle, 15e siècle (?)".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.5352, 2.1481
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 32′ 6.72″ N, 2° 8′ 53.16″ E
UTM: 31T 433485 5042760

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
Drainage Notes: a wide hole (22 cm), probably the original means through which the measure was emptied of its contents
Basin Total Height: 47 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 47 x 47 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM19000271]