Blevy No. 2 / Blévy / Blévy en Maillebois
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inscription
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mesure à grains [...] fonderie, fer [...] 15e siècle (?) ; 16e siècle (?) [...] Inscription (illisible) [...] H = 60 ; la = 70 [...] Près de l'entrée à droite" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [28w00976] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP28W00976] [accessed 7 January 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mesure à grains [...] fonderie, fer [...] 15e siècle (?) ; 16e siècle (?) [...] Inscription (illisible) [...] H = 60 ; la = 70 [...] Près de l'entrée à droite" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [28w00976] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP28W00976] [accessed 7 January 2024]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Mesure à grains [...] fonderie, fer [...] 15e siècle (?) ; 16e siècle (?) [...] Inscription (illisible) [...] H = 60 ; la = 70 [...] Près de l'entrée à droite" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [28w00976] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP28W00976] [accessed 7 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25240BLE
Object Type: Other
Object Details: grain measure
Font Date: n.d.
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Blévy
Font Location in Church: Near the entranceway, on the right side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 12thC church with later modifications and still unfinished -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097143]: "12e siècle ; 15e siècle [...] Eglise restée inachevée."
Church Address: 4 Place de l'Église, Blévy, 28170 Maillebois, France
Site Location: Eure-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D20-D113 crossroads, in the municipality ond 2-3 km E of Maillebois, about 20 km SW of Dreux
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Chartres
Additional Comments: re-cycled / re-purposed grain measure as stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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A former grain measure bearing an illegible inscription used as holy-water stoup by the entrance; listed in Palissy [ref.: PM28000386]: "Mesure à grains [...] fonderie, fer [...] 15e siècle (?) ; 16e siècle (?) [...] Inscription (illisible) [...] H = 60 ; la = 70 [...] Près de l'entrée à droite". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP28W00976]. [NB: these objects are practically indistinguishable from other such made as stoups though out France in this period],
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.638731, 1.180861
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 38′ 19.43″ N, 1° 10′ 51.1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, iron (cast iron)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the side
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]