Corneilhan / Corneliano / Cornilhano / Cornillan
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Leontius church in Corneilhan, Hérault, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krzysztof Golik, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2021 by Krzysztof Golik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Leontius_church_in_Corneilhan_(6).jpg] [accessed 15 November 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The historic part of the village built on a hill. Corneilhan, Hérault, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Ferrer, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 4 December 2013 by Christian Ferrer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corneilhan,_Hérault_02.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Corneilhan (Hérault) église Saint-Léonce ; fonts-baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région LRMP, Inventaire général, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by M. Kérignard, 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]:
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24456COR
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Léonce
Church Patron Saints: St. Leontius
Church Location: 2 Pl. Sainte-Ceronne, 34490 Corneilhan, France
Country Name: France
Location: Hérault, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the D39-D154 crossroads, 7-8 km NNW of Béziers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Montpellier
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th 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: present church of 1869 but has some earlier elements inside
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]: "il sera peut-être permis d’attribuer à Roquebrun de nombreuses pièces de mobilier religieux où se mêlent marbres rouges et marbres d’autres couleurs, autrefois donnés sans preuve à Caunes, comme les fonts baptismaux de l’église de Corneilhan [...] où la coupe godronnée de marbre griotte-vert est portée par un pied de marbre incarnat, couleurs propres aux carrières de Roquebrun".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.400385,
3.191843
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 24′ 1.39″ N,
3° 11′ 30.64″ E
UTM: 31T 515535 4805296
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (Roquebrun)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood?,
Apparatus: no