Tarnac No. 4 / Ternat
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 4 - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: on two sides of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1979 by Alain Chambaretaud, in Mémoire [NUMI 79190038X]
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design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: on two sides of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1979 by Alain Chambaretaud, in Mémoire [NUMI 79190038X]
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in 1979 in the grounds of Tarnac castle
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in 1979 by Alain Chambaretaud, in Mémoire [NUMI 79190038X]
[www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1387/ivr74_79190038x_p.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21177TAR
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown; the parish church at Tarnac suggested in Palissy ]
Church Location: 19170 Tarnac, France ["propriété privée, ne se visite pas"]
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: The castle is located 500 m. NW of the village of Tarnac. Tarnac itself is located at the D109-D160 crossroads, 11 km N of Bugeat, 30 km NW of Meymac, 42 km NW of Ussel
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle [ancien diocèse de Limoges]
Historical Region: Plateau de Millevaches, Limousin
Font Location in Church: in the park of the castle
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: the castle is listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099965]: "Château caractéristique du début du 17e siècle [...] 1ère moitié"
The basin of a baptismal font is listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: IM19000845]: "fonts baptismaux (cuve des fonts baptismaux) [...] granite [...] ornementation (ornement à forme géométrique) [...] Deux côtés opposés aux deux autres côtés." The original August 1978 entry by Martine Chavent for the inventory [Palissy IM19000845] dates this font to possibly the 13th century and notes that its [then] present location in the park of the castle is the only one in memory [NB: the 1994 updated entry in Palissy, however, states: "Provient sans doute de l'église de Tarnac"]; the font is described as a square basin decorated with Romanesque arches on two sides, and a lozenge pattern on the other two; it has a drain hole in one side, and it is raised on an octagonal base; no cover present [NB: if the dating of the font is correct it cannot have belonged to the castle, which is a 17th-century building and there is no record of an earlier one there -- although the arcade of blind round arches looks medieval the shape of the font and the added ornamentation on the other two sides may raise doubts about the date assigned above].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
45° 41' 3" N,
1° 56' 42" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Basin Total Height: 42 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 65 x 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM19000845]
