Sauviat

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design element - architectural - arch or window - 12

Scene Description: three per side of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure MH0035151] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00035151] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00035151] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise du XIVéme siècle à Sauviat"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anthospace, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 11 March 2012 by Anthospace [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_XIV_Sauviat.JPG] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure MH0035151] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00035151] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00035151] [accessed 23 July 2022]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 24137SAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Loup [Saint-Michel?] de Sauviat
Church Patron Saints: St. Loup of Limoges? [St. Michael?]
Church Location: rue de l’Eglise 63120 Sauviat, France
Country Name: France
Location: Puy de Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off local road D315 [aka Moulin de Doré], W of the D905, about 20 km SSW of Thiers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Clermont
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Church Notes: 14thC priory church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092414]: "Le prieuré de Sauviat devait dater des premières années du 14e siècle et aurait été fondé par les moines de l'abbaye de Cluse en Piémont"
Font Notes:
Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00035151]: "Fonts baptismaux". Font of stone consisting of a sqaure basin decorated with three arches or windows per side, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a roind-to-square lower base. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.7153, 3.53319
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 42′ 55.08″ N, 3° 31′ 59.48″ E
UTM: 31T 541497 5062554

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square