Perouges No. 5 / Pérouges
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: badly weathered and damaged
view of object
Scene Description: a re-cycled stoup?
view of obiect
Scene Description: a re-cycled stoup?
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23514PER
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
Font Location in Church: In the village
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Address: Place de l'église, Porte d'En-Haut, 01800 Pérouges, France
Site Location: Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D4, just W of Meximieux, 30-35 km NE of Lyon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Belley-Ars
Additional Comments: re-cycled stoup/font? (now used as a planter in the village)
Font Notes:
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A large hemispherical basin suspiciously shaped like a baptismal font or holy-water stoup is now [2021], badly weathered and damaged, used as a planter outside the church; it is decorated with a roll moulding around the upper rim. [cf. other BSI entries for Perouges for a number of listed objects in this church]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.info/zdutchfonts.htm] for his photographs of this object
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.903670, 5.178366
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 54' 13.2" N, 5° 10' 42.1" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round