Cluny No. 1

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a fragment of "mobilier liturgique" from Cluny III housed now in the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie [aka Musée Ochier], located in the Palais Jean de Bourbon -- although probably not a font [a well-head?] it could well have been one
Scene Description: a fragment of "mobilier liturgique" from Cluny III housed now in the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie [aka Musée Ochier], located in the Palais Jean de Bourbon -- although probably not a font [a well-head?] it could well have been one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eduard van Boxtel, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph in Eduard van Boxtel's Bourgogne Romane [http://www.bourgogneromane.com/edifices/cluny.htm] [accessed 3 September 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

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a fragment of "mobilier liturgique" from Cluny III housed now in the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie [aka Musée Ochier], located in the Palais Jean de Bourbon -- although probably not a font [a well-head?] it could well have been one
Scene Description: a fragment of "mobilier liturgique" from Cluny III housed now in the Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie [aka Musée Ochier], located in the Palais Jean de Bourbon -- although probably not a font [a well-head?] it could well have been one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eduard van Boxtel, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph in Eduard van Boxtel's Bourgogne Romane [http://www.bourgogneromane.com/edifices/cluny.htm] [accessed 3 September 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 21466CLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale [disappeared]
Church Patron Saints: [St. Mary]
Church Location: rue du 11-Août, 71250 Cluny, France
Country Name: France
Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Directions to Site: Located off the D15-D980 crossroads, about 25 km NW of Macon, about 100 km NNW of Lyon.
Historical Region: Le Mâconnais, Bourgogne
Century and Period: 10th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey founding documented 909-910; numbering (Cluny I, II and III, corresponds to different 'etapes' of the abbey); closed down by the Revolution in 1790; sold 1798; demolished 1806-1823; ruins of abbey and church listed in 1862; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00113220] -- for details and images of the remains see http://www.bourgogneromane.com/edifices/cluny.htm [accessed 3 September 2017]
Font Notes:
[NB: we have no information on the baptismal font(s) of the early abbey church(es) here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.4309, 4.6866
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 26′ 4″ N, 4° 39′ 33″ E