Villenave / Villenave in Luz-Saint-Sauveur
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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 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 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 font and cover
Scene Description: showing the off-centre drain hole in its basin
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Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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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 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
FontID: 24783VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié de Villenave
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 19 Ham. de Villenave, 65120 Luz-Saint-Sauveur, France
Country Name: France
Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church -- the medieval(?) chrismon on the lintel above the west door may have broken in the 1854 earthquake
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.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.869568, 0.003161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 10.45″ N, 0° 0′ 11.38″ E
UTM: 31T 255208 4750688
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]