Coulonges-sur-l'Autize / Colongia / Coulonges-le-Royal / Coulonges-lèz-Réaux / Coulonges-les-Royaux / villa Ecolonii

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Scene Description: a band of

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 November 2019 by sara et gege [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm11NCT_Fonds_Baptismal_Roman_Eglise_Saint_Etienne_Coulonges_sur_l_Autize_Nouvelle_Aquitaine_France] [accessed 22 August 2022]

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design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: below the upper rim

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Façade de l'église Saint-Etienne"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 January 2017 by Stendym [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Etienne_de_Coulonges-sur-l'Autize.jpg] [accessed 22 August 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux romans"

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 19 November 2019 by sara et gege [https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm11NCT_Fonds_Baptismal_Roman_Eglise_Saint_Etienne_Coulonges_sur_l_Autize_Nouvelle_Aquitaine_France] [accessed 22 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21563COU

Church/Chapel: Eglise Paroissiale Saint-Etienne de Coulonges-sur-l'Autize

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: 79160 Coulonges-sur-l'Autize, France

Country Name: France

Location: Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D1-D25-D744-D745 crossroads, NNW of Niort

Historical Region: Poitou-Charentes / Val de Gâtine

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: 12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00101226]: "Un sanctuaire catholique existait dès l'époque carolingienne. Sous Charles le Chauve, la possession de l'église revient à l'évêque de Charroux (Vienne). Vers la fin du 11e siècle, Saint-Etienne devient prieuré de Nieul-sur-l'Autize (Vendée). Après le démembrement du diocèse de Poitiers, en 1317, Saint-Etienne est rattaché à l'évêché de Maillezais et dépend dès lors de l'archiprêtré d'Ardin. Primitivement édifiée sur plan en croix latine, l'église a vu son architecture se modifier à la fin de la période gothique."

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Romanesque baptismal font noted in the entry for this church in Parvis-Poirtiers-Catholique [http://www.parvis.poitierscatholique.fr/st-grignion/Coulonges-sur-l-Autize.pdf] [accessed 22 August 2022]: "à gauche de l'entrée : au nord, des fonts baptismaux romans". Only the round battered basin remains of the old font, now mounted on a modern composite base; the sides are decorated with a single groove below the upper rim, and a band of linked round arch-heads all around. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.4818, -0.5729

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 29′ 7″ N, 0° 36′ 1″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round