Villenave / Villenave in Luz-Saint-Sauveur
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié de Villenave (Luz-Saint-Sauveur) (Hautes-Pyrénées)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2016 by Sotos [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapelle_Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié_de_Villenave_(Luz-Saint-Sauveur)_(Hautes-Pyrénées)_1.jpg] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Omnès, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by J. Omnès, in Patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves [https://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoines-materiels/patrimoine-achitectural/27-1b-les-eglises-canton-de-luz] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing the off-centre drain hole in its basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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view of church exterior - west portal - lintel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Omnès, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by J. Omnès, in Patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves [https://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoines-materiels/patrimoine-achitectural/27-1b-les-eglises-canton-de-luz] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Omnès, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by J. Omnès, in Patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves [https://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoines-materiels/patrimoine-achitectural/27-1b-les-eglises-canton-de-luz] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: near the west doorway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © J. Omnès, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by J. Omnès, in Patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves [https://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoines-materiels/patrimoine-achitectural/27-1b-les-eglises-canton-de-luz] [accessed 17 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24783VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié de Villenave
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church -- the medieval(?) chrismon on the lintel above the west door may have broken in the 1854 earthquake
Church Address: 19 Ham. de Villenave, 65120 Luz-Saint-Sauveur, France
Site Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Villenave is a hamlet of Luz-S-S, located off the D918, and just SE of it [NB: Villenave and Luz-S-S were merged in 1823]
Historical Region: Pays des des Vallées des Gaves / Midi-Pyrénées
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font and a holy-water stoup in this church are illustrated in Patrimoines du Pays des Vallées des Gaves [https://www.patrimoines-lourdes-gavarnie.fr/patrimoines-materiels/patrimoine-achitectural/27-1b-les-eglises-canton-de-luz] [accessed 17 July 2023]. The font consists of a plain stone basin, round and provided with an off-centre drain hole, raised on a modern pedestal base. The wooden cover on the font, flat, round and plain is hinged at the back; appears modern. The stone stoup, located near the west entranceway consists of a roughly rectangular and shallow basin on a pedestal base.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 255208 4750688
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.869568, 0.003161
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 52′ 10.45″ N, 0° 0′ 11.38″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: off-centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]