Brux

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: much of it damaged now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2014 by Robin Poitou [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Brux.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: showing the west and the south portals into the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2012 by JLPC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brux_86_Façade_église_2012.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: is the planter on the south side of the door a former font?

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 October 2012 by JLPC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brux_86_Façade_église_2012.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2017]

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view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2012 by JLPC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brux_86_Chœur_2012.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 21560BRU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paoissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 86510 Brux, France

Country Name: France

Location: Vienne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D25-D98 crossroads, NE of Chaunay, 40 km SSW of Poitiers, in the arrondissement of Montmorillon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angoulême

Historical Region: Poitou-Charentes

Font Location in Church: inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 14th century, Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: early 12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00105367]: "Construite au début du 12e siècle, l'église est restée intacte, sans aucun ajout postérieur."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of stone, consisting of an octagonal basin with plain sides and a tall chamfered underbowl, its sides also plain; there is a flat rim with a double moulding on its chamfered side, but much of it is damaged or broken off; the basin is raised on a splaying octagonal base; both parts of the font are irregular and crudely rendered, apparently the work of a local stonemason; there is a wooden modern font cover on it, flat and plain. If one should not assign an early date on account of crude workmanship, this font could well be of a later period than the original church [early-12th century]. There is an object of stone used as planter just outside the west doorway, on the south side; could this be a re-cycled font basin?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.235922, 0.193097

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 14′ 9.32″ N, 0° 11′ 35.15″ E

UTM: 31T 283584 5124090

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain; modern