Cheniers / Chamniers / Chéniers
Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
Results: 4 records
animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - bicorporate
Scene Description: bi-corporals rendered like this in the priod tend to be lions; these are hard to visualise as felines
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2008 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2008 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Patrimoine de France.com [source not given] [http://images.patrimoine-de-france.com/thumb/590/c/ccfe735dae867296ea4505436192e567.jpg] [accessed 8 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: assumed PD
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2008 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21562CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de l'Assomption-de-la-Très-Sainte-Vierge [originally Saint-Martin]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumtion of St. Mary [originally St. Martin]
Church Location: 1 Place de l'Église, 23220 Cheniers, France
Country Name: France
Location: Creuse, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D46, NNE of Limoges
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Limoges
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of the stoup here
Church Notes: 12thC church replaced an earlier obe dedicated to St. Martin; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00100045]: "L'église comprend un chevet plat du 12e siècle, un choeur de la même époque postérieurement voûté en berceau brisé."
Font Notes:
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There are three objects of our concern in this church: 1)a baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, raised on an undefined squat base and a rectangular plinth, 2)a holy-water stoup carved out of a former capital decorated with heads at the angles that share bodies on the sides; they appear to be animal bodies but some may be very crudely-rendered humans; and 3)a small oblong stoup mounted on a pillar. [NB: all three items are illustrated in http://www.mesvoyagesenfrance.com/D23/Cheniers.html [accessed 8 December 2017] but we were unable to download the illustrative images].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.352, 1.82684
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal