Lesterps No. 1 / L'Esterp / Lesterp / Leyter / Stirpa / Stirpem / Stirpis

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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

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information

Image Source: text by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: a partial re-building of the original abbey church here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2014 by Traumrune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesterps_11_eglise.JPG] [accessed 15 December 2017]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2014 by Michel Claveyrolas

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INFORMATION

FontID: 21571LES

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Pierre de Lesterps

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 11 rue de la Mairie, 16420 Lesterps, France

Country Name: France

Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side, beneath the west gallery

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Late Romanesque

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

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

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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."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.0104, 0.7807

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 0′ 37.44″ N, 0° 46′ 50.52″ E

UTM: 31T 328188 5097598

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]