Bessuejouls / Bessuéjouls / Bessuèjols

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view of church exterior - south façade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "modillons façade principale"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madpe, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2016 by Madpe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pierre_de_Bessuéjouls_modillons.jpg] [accessed 1 December 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: partial view of the interior of the 'chapelle haute', half-way up the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: one of the capitals in the interior of the 'chapelle haute', half-way up the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 November 2019)

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: one of the capitals in the interior of the 'chapelle haute', half-way up the tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 November 2019)

view of church interior - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Madpe, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2016 by Madpe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pierre_de_Bessuéjouls_chapiteau_3.jpg] [accessed 1 December 2019]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 November 2019)

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2019
Image Source: digital photograoh taken 8 May 2019 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 November 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 22453BES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Bessuéjouls / Sant-Pèire de Bessuèjols
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 12500 Bessuéjouls, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aveyron, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D556, S of the D920, 5 km ESE of Estaing, 20-24 km NE of Rodez
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: originally a late-11thC(?) priory church; destroyed in the 16thC; re-built 16th-17th-18thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093967]
Font Notes:
The present font in this church is a very crude object, and it is only a guess whether the two parts originally belonged together: a roughly-cylindrical basin raised on an octagonal-to-square, also very irregular. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.5264, 2.7301
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 31′ 35.04″ N, 2° 43′ 48.36″ E
UTM: 31T 478553 4930377

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining