Loury / Lauriacum / Loiry / Lorris

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: " L'église Saint-Bon-Saint-Dulcide."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon de l'Ouest, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 May 2017 by Simon de l'Ouest [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:45_Loury_église.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2023]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 25025LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais
Church/Chapel: Église Saint-Bon-Saint-Dulcide de Loury
Church Patron Saints: St. Bon & St. Dulcide
Church Location: 13 Rue Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 45470 Loury, France
Country Name: France
Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: the D2152-D11 crossroads, NE of Orléans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans
Historical Region: L'Orléanais
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
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: 11thC church may have replaced an earlier building destroyed by the Normans/Vikings; modified 13th, 16thC
Font Notes:
The baptismal font of this church is mentioned in a report of the murder of its priest by the local chatelain in 1646 [source: Histoire de l'eglise et diocese, ville et université d'Orleans. Par M. Symphorien Guyon Orleanois, à Orleans chez Claude & Iacques Borde, au cloistre Saincte Croix, 1650." Entries in the Bulletin de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, 1 janvier 1848 report the donation and transfer of the baptismal font to the society by the local priest; the font itself is described as monolithic, with a diamter of 60 cm, a height of 35 cm and an interior depth of 18 cm; the exterior is octagonal, the interior round; [obviously a description of just the basin]; the panels of the octagon are decorated with a variety of symbols and motifs (cross, chalice, cruets, a scythe, etc.); this object, together with others was taken to the departmental museum. The second semester of 1850 report by that museum mentions the basin ["cuve, ayant servi de piscine baptismale"]: ["Nous avons profité de ce voyage pour prendre possession des fonts baptismaux offerts à la Société par M. le curé Tallereau, et des débris d'une tombe en pierre coulée trouvée dans un chemin près du cimetière. Les fonts sont d'une seule pierre, de soixante centimètres de diamètre, de trente-cinq centimètres de hauteur, la cuve a dix-huit centimètres de profondeur, elle est ronde intérieurement, l'extérieur est octogone : chaque pan est orné d'une sculpture assez grossièrement faite, représentant une croix, un calice, des burettes, un sceau, etc." [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55448521/texteBrut] [accessed 5 November 2023] [NB: the museum mentioned above would be the Musée historique et archéologique de l'Orléanais

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.00152, 2.08479
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 0′ 5.47″ N, 2° 5′ 5.24″ E
UTM: 31U 431732 5316874