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Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

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

Results: 12 records

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on both the main and the auxiliary clustered bases

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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

design element - motifs - nail-head

Scene Description: although eroded, it has survived on the auxiliary basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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design element - motifs - unidentified

Scene Description: whatwever motif decorated this side of the basin is now totally eroded; it may have been the same one that appears on the auxiliary basin to the right -- the hole visible here, and several others, were probably part of the anchoring for an old font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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

information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: text by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: with the tower at the east end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosier, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2008 by rosier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fléac1.2.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: a bi-corporate monster in one of the capitals of the west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mj.galais, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2014 by Mj.galais [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fléac-16-détail_d'un_pilier_à_l'entrée_de_l'Eglise_Notre-Dame_photo_n°14.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2011 by Michel Claveyrolas

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

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "peinture XVème à l'intérieur de l'Eglise Notre-Dame"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mj.galais, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2014 by Mj.galais [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fléac_-16-_peinture_xvème_à_l'intérieur_de_l'Eglise_Notre-Dame_photo_n°_16.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: Source caption: "peinture du XVème à l'intérieur de l'Eglise Notre-Dame" -- the martyrdom of St. Barbara?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mj.galais, 2014

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 March 2014 by Mj.galais [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fléac-16-_peinture_du_xvème_à_l'intérieur_de_l'Eglise_Notre-Dame_photo_n°15.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 21570FLE
Church/Chapel: Rglise paroissiale Notre-Dame [aka Notre-Dame des Sept-Clochers]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Place de l'Eglise 16730 Fléac, France -- Tel.: 05 45 91 04 62
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located off the D103, 5 km WNW of Angoulême
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angoulême
Historical Region: Angoumois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: "Au VIIIe siècle, l'église Notre-Dame dépendait de l'abbaye de Saint-Cybard aujourd'hui disparue, qui se situait sous le rempart nord d'Angoulême. Devenue une dépendance du chapitre de la cathédrale avant le XIIe siècle, elle est actuellement église paroissiale." [source: Michel Claveyrolas] -- François Vigier de la Pile's Histoire de l'Angoumois (1846: cxlii) gives the dedication of the church as the Assumption -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104370]: "11e siècle ; 12e siècle [...] Petite église à coupoles des premières années du 12e siècle."
The baptismal font in this church appears to be an early example of a double-font, consisting of a main round basin with a smaller auxiliary one of similar shape on the side; the main basin appears to have lost the details of the decoration on its sides, but the details of nail-head motif remain on the side of the auxiliary basin; the clustered bases are cylindrical and plain, the auxiliary one, like the basin, smaller than the main; the round lower bases, also corresponding in sizes to the rest of the parts, have graded mouldings; the whole appears to be monolithic but the two elements are well defined. The font appears to have been exposed to the elements for a long time, hence the eroded details. The wooden cover is a polygonal pyramid with a flat side extension for the auxiliary basin; it has a cross finial and is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.6656, 0.0976
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 39′ 56.16″ N, 0° 5′ 51.36″ E
UTM: 31T 273913 5060992

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round (both wells)
Basin Exterior Shape: round (both basins)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal pyramid with cross finial, with flat extension to cover the auxiliary basin; modern