Roquebrun / Rocabrun / Rocha Bruna / Roquebrune

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of Roquebrun, Hérault, France"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Ferrer, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 7 May 2016 by Christian Ferrer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Roquebrun_cf01.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2022]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Denis Népipvoda in L’exploitation du marbre à Roquebrun au XVIIe siècle : de la fenêtre à meneau au retable de marbre [https://doi.org/10.4000/pds.1385] [accessed 14 November 2022]:

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24452ROQ
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-André
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 288 Pl. de l'Église, 34460 Roquebrun, France -- Tel.: +33 4 67 93 81 03
Country Name: France
Location: Hérault, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D14, about 25 km NNW of Béziers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Montpellier
Historical Region: Languedor-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: castle church ca. 1156; modified 1860
The baptismal font in this church is noted and illustrated in Denis Népipvoda's L’exploitation du marbre à Roquebrun au XVIIe siècle : de la fenêtre à meneau au retable de marbre [https://doi.org/10.4000/pds.1385] [accessed 14 November 2022] as having been made of a local marble that "a aussi servi à fabriquer la cuve baptismale du village de Roquebrun".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.500899, 3.030714
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 30′ 3.23″ N, 3° 1′ 50.57″ E
UTM: 31T 502483 4816442

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Roquebrun)
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wooden,
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal with moulded sides; finial