Balzac / Balazaco / Balazacum
Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
Results: 5 records
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © 2Passage, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 March 2006 by 2Passage [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balzac_-_Eglise.jpg] [accessed 16 September 2017]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack ma, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2009 by Jack ma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balz_eg2.JPG] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosier, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2008 by Rosier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balzac1.4.JPG] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the church and castle, cheek by jowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosier, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2009 by Rosier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balzac2.4.JPG] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the damage at opposite ends of the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21507BAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 16430 Balzac, France
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D737, just S of Vars, 7 km NW of Angoulême [the church is rather removed from the town centre, in a place known as La Chapelle, near the castle and the cemetery]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angoulême
Historical Region: Grand Angoulême, Angoumois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church documented 1153
Font Notes:
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Octagonal monolithic basin with tapering sides decorated with plain panels; there are two knotches of damage at opposite ends of the upper rim, probably related to metal anchorings of an old cover; the object rests directly on the ground. There is a plain flat round wooden cover fitted inside the upper rim; it is modern. [NB: no listing found for either the font of the church itself -- September 2017]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.7078, 0.10917
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 42′ 28.08″ N, 0° 6′ 33.01″ E
UTM: 31T 274983 5065648
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]