Chenu

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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human figure - face, head or mask - 5

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier, Détail de la frise." -- only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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human figure - face, head or mask - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Martin de Chenu"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HubertduMaine, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 August 2012 by HubertduMaine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Chenu.JPG] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chenu - Eglise Saint-Martin de Tours Intérieur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Antoine Garnier, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 3 July 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chenu_-_Eglise_Saint-Martin_de_Tours_-_2.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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view of stoup

Scene Description: only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1906 drawing (encre sur papier) by A.L., in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP72W02692] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier, Vue générale -- le bénitier est placé contre le mur sud-ouest de la nef " -- only five of the eight sides of the basin bear carvings; the rim of the copper insert is visible atop the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Jean-Baptiste Darrasse, in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/illustration/IVR52_20087201152NUCA] [accessed 18 December 2023]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 25169CHE
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin-de-Tours de Chenu
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 1 Rue Grande Rue, 72500 Chenu, France
Country Name: France
Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D30-D215 crossroads, 10 km N of Château-la-Vallière, about 30 km NW of Tours
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Le Mans
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against the SW wall of the nave
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, 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: original Romanesque church; totally re-built 15th and 16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109717]
Font Notes:
The entry for this church in Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/dossier/IM72001615] [accessed 18 December 2023] notes a baptismal font /holy-water stoup [cf. infra]of the late-13th or 14th century in it ["L'église Saint-Martin de Chenu conserve des fonts baptismaux datant de la seconde moitié du XIIIe ou du XIVe siècle"]. The full dossier in the same source [https://gertrude.paysdelaloire.fr/dossier/IM72001606] [accessed 18 December 2023] expands on the description noting also a copper insert of the 17th or 18th century ["Les fonts sont en calcaire peint en blanc et se composent de trois éléments monolithes posés l'un sur l'autre : une cuve octogonale sur un pied octogonal reposant lui-même sur une base carrée à chanfreins. La cuve présente un décor en relief semi -méplat dans la masse. La cuve est munie d'une cuvette en cuivre [...] Les huit faces de la cuve, groupées par deux, présentent quatre décors légèrement différents où s'alternent des masques grimaçants, placés une fois au milieu de la face et trois fois dans les angles, et des rinceaux stylisés. La frise est délimitée par le motif de la corde qui cerne la cuve en bas et en haut [...] mauvais état [...] La pierre est usée et porte les traces de nombreux petits impacts. La cuvette a été ajoutée. Elle est oxydée"]. The object is listed as a 12th-century holy-water stoup in Palissy [ref.: PM72000140]: "Bénitier [...] Octogone, sculpté sur cinq de ses faces [...] 12e siècle [...] H = 60 ; la = 90 [...] Anciennement daté du 11e siècle ou du 12e siècle"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.6128, 0.33833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 36′ 46.08″ N, 0° 20′ 17.99″ E
UTM: 31T 299977 5276699

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: copper insert [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Total Height: 60 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm**
Trapezoidal Basin: 90 cm* / 80 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM72000140] / ** Région Pays de la Loire - Inventaire général [NB: the difference in the measurements is due to the two referring to different approches to the object]