Lesterps No. 1 / L'Esterp / Lesterp / Leyter / Stirpa / Stirpem / Stirpis
Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: a partial re-building of the original abbey church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Traumrune, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2014 by Traumrune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesterps_11_eglise.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: text by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Text and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 21571LES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Object Details: capital, medieval
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Pierre de Lesterps
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side, beneath the west gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: originally a chapel by late 10thC; Augustinian abbey documented by 1038; abandoned in mid-16thC until mid-17thC; sold in 1790; abbey church collapsed 1815; re-built in part as parish church; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104390] as 12thC
Church Address: 11 rue de la Mairie, 16420 Lesterps, France
Site Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D29, 9 km E of Confolens, 42 vm NW of Limoges, 63 km from Angoulême
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Limoges
Historical Region: Le Confolentais, Limousin, Angoumois
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup (originally a capital of the abbey church chancel; later a stoup; now [2014] used as baptismal font) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Limestone holy-water stoup listed in Palissy [ref.: PM16000575] as a former capital from the chancel of the abbey church, later re-cycled as stoup, decorated with "larges corbeilles sculptées de grands rinceaux, se recourbant aux angles"; the object is quadrangular at the top and rounded at the bottom, its foliage decoration deeply carved; it stands on a plain rounded base; the top of the basin appears to have a wooden cover, which is unusual in the case of stoups; the reason for a cover on it is probably because the stoup is now [2014] used as baptismal font. Michel Claveyrols writes: "Les fonts baptismaux sont creusés dans un chapiteau déposé du XIIe siècle qui se trouve sur le côté sud de la nef, sous la tribune. Il est orné de tiges végétales et de palmettes s'achevant en crochets aux angles."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of this church and stoup
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 328188 5097598
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.0104, 0.7807
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 0′ 37.44″ N, 0° 46′ 50.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 79 x 80 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM16000575]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood?
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.