Opoul-Perillos No. 2 / Oped / Opet / Opidum / Òpol i Perellós / Opou / Opoul / Opoul-Périllos
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Results: 8 records
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romain Bréget, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2013 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hameau_de_Périllos-Opoul-Périllos_4.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Société Périllos, 2017
Image Source: digital image by André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romain Bréget, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2013 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hameau_de_Périllos-Opoul-Périllos_9.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: the now practically abandoned hamlet of Périllos
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Romain Bréget, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2013 by Romain Bréget [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hameau_de_Périllos-Opoul-Périllos_10.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - plan
![the later development of the original 'chapelle des seigneurs', according to André Douzet, of the Société Périllos -- notice the position of the baptismal font at the northeast corner of the lower chamber, while the orientation of the re-arranged interior has the chancel [choeur] towards the south, not the east](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170807031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the later development of the original 'chapelle des seigneurs', according to André Douzet, of the Société Périllos -- notice the position of the baptismal font at the northeast corner of the lower chamber, while the orientation of the re-arranged interior has the chancel [choeur] towards the south, not the east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Société Périllos, 2017
Image Source: digital image by André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: the plan of the original (?) chapel shows the chancel properly oriented towards the east, with the entranceway in the north wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Société Périllos, 2017
Image Source: digital image by André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of church interior - plan
![the plan of the present [ca. 2017?] plan showing the church reversed to its proper orientation; the font, identified as item no. 2, appears in the southwest corner of the nave; the entranceway remains in the north wall](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170807033_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the plan of the present [ca. 2017?] plan showing the church reversed to its proper orientation; the font, identified as item no. 2, appears in the southwest corner of the nave; the entranceway remains in the north wall
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Société Périllos, 2017
Image Source: digital image by André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: both the basin and the pedestal base are built into the wall; the font cover is flat and hinged at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Société Périllos, 2017
Image Source: digital image by André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21382PER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Laurent-et-Saint-Michel d'Opoul
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & St. Michael
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Opoul-Périllos is located off the D5-D9 crossroads, between Embres-et-Castelmaure (Aude) (N) and Salses-le-Château (S), N of Perpignan [NB: a separate commune 10 km NNW of Opoul, Périllos, practically uninhabited now, merged with Opoul in 1976]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan
Historical Region: Les Corbières catalanes, Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, half-built into the wall
Century and Period: Medieval
Church Notes: Opoul church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00029692]: "Eglise paroissiale [...] Construite probablement au 12e siècle ; adjonction de chapelles latérales au 16e siècle ; décor intérieur en stuc du 18e siècle".
Font Notes:
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A font in this hamlet church is noted and illustrated in André Douzet, in Société Périllos [http://www.societe-perillos.com/eglise_per3.html] [accessed 7 August 2017]; the font consists of a round crudely-made basin and a circular pedestal base that are both half-built into the wall of the church; the basin appears plain and has a flat plain cover hinged at the back; the pedestal base is white-washed and appears to have no distinctive marks on it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.897079, 2.846572
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 53′ 49.48″ N, 2° 50′ 47.66″ E
UTM: 31T 487473 4749397
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]