Bois / Saint-Pierre-de-Bois
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 March 2022)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
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view of basin and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église romane de Bois"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cobber17, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 16 June 2011 by Cobber17 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L'église_de_Bois.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 March 2022)
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: with the locked font alcove in the northwest corner
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 22 June 2021 by Mikel Unanue
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 March 2022)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 23838BOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: [composite?], [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissale Saint-Pierre-de-Bois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a NW corner alcove
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 12thC church; modified 14th-15thC; -- listed church [Mérimée ref.: PA00104624]
Church Address: Sq. Frère Jean Pierre Masson, 17240 Bois, France
Site Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D2, E of the A10 [aka L'Aquitaine], 2 km W of Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, about 25 km S of Saintes
Historical Region: Haute Saintonge
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin de corated with mouldings on the sides (one rop, two flat), raised on a capital-shaped upper base and a palin cylindrical stem, quite likely a composite object. Plain crude font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 687635 5040004
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.488328, -0.598807
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 29′ 17.98″ N, 0° 35′ 55.7″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: appears to be a round sheet of thin metal with a round knob handle; poor and modern