Coulgens / Colgante / Colganto / Colgent / Colgento

Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
Results: 8 records
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - west façade - detail
view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: side view from the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jack ma, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2011 by Jack ma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coulgens_eg6.JPG] [accessed 16 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west portal
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - north side - painting - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 21509COU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 16560 Coulgens, France
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D40-D45 crossroads, S of Saint-Angeau, 11 km SE of Mansle, 12 km ENE of Saint-Amant-de-Boixe, 13 km from La Rochefoucauld, 22 km NE of Angoulême
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angoulême
Historical Region: Val de Tardoire, Angoumois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: original church 11thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104341]: "Eglise [11e siècle ; 12e siècle] à nef unique de quatre travées voûtées en berceau sur doubleaux. L'avant-choeur, qui est surmonté par le clocher, est voûté en berceau, comme la nef. L'abside semi-circulaire est voûtée en cul de four. La façade occidentale comporte un porche à deux rouleaux dans un avant-corps en faible saillie. L'abside a été surélevée par un petit mur. Le clocher barlong est percé de baies en plein cintre. A l'intérieur, les chapiteaux sont sculptés. Des fresques du 15e siècle ont été trouvées sous le badigeon (calvaire avec un saint Jean à la gauche du Christ)."
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font of stone, of simple style and crude workmenship; it consists of a roughly cylindrical basin with a tapering round underbowl; the basin is decorated with two parallel mouldings that are very worn now; raised on a cylindrical stone of a different composition, which probably means the font is composite, perhaps replacing an earlier base; there apears to be a large hole in one side of the basin; it may have been made if the font was at some time used in a farm, as a trough or similar. No cover present
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
45.8133,
0.2858
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
45° 48′ 47.88″ N,
0° 17′ 8.88″ E
UTM: 31T 289130 5076887