Pontaubert No. 2

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: much damaged now

Image Source: digital photograph in photos-eglises [https://photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/89/pontaubert/pontaubert.htm] [accessed 8 October 2023]

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symbol - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Image Source: digital photograph in photos-eglises [https://photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/89/pontaubert/pontaubert.htm] [accessed 8 October 2023]

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view of stoup in context

Image Source: digital photograph in photos-eglises [https://photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/89/pontaubert/pontaubert.htm] [accessed 8 October 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24983FON

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre Dame-de-la-Nativité de Pontaubert

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: 34 Rte de Vézelay, 89200 Pontaubert, France -- Tel.: +33 3 86 34 41 77

Country Name: France

Location: Yonne, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: Located off the B957 [aka Rte de Vézelay], 3 km W of Avallon, 10-11 km E of Vézelay

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Sens-Auxerre

Historical Region: L'Avallonnais / Bourgogne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: 12th-13thC church by the Hospitallers of St John -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00113787]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in photos-eglises [https://photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/89/pontaubert/pontaubert.htm] [accessed 8 October 2023] notes and illustrates the stone font and a bucket-shaped metal [cast iron?] holy-water stoup decorated with fleurs-de-lys raised on a stone pedestal base ["Un ancien bénitier en fonte orné de fleur de lys repose sur une base de colonne"] [cf. BSI entry for Pontaubert No. 1 for a late-Gothic font in this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.49, 3.861389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 29′ 24″ N, 3° 51′ 41″ E

UTM: 31T 564886 5259978

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, iron [cast iron?]

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round