Leme / Lema / Lème en Béarn / Lèmẹ / Lheme

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the recessed rim to accommodate a cover, and the drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jacques de Lème"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 May 2021 by WCOMFR Mireille GRUMBERG [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:64_LEME_l'église.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2024]

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view of church interior - looking southeast

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of church interior - south portal - detail

Source caption: "Lème - Eglise Saint-Jacques" -- originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lème - Eglise Saint-Jacques" -- originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lème_-_Eglise_Saint-Jacques_-_03.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2024]

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view of church interior - south portal - east side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lème - Eglise Saint-Jacques" -- originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lème_-_Eglise_Saint-Jacques_-_05.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2024]

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view of church interior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lème - Eglise Saint-Jacques" -- originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lème_-_Eglise_Saint-Jacques_-_04.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2024]

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view of church interior - southeast portal

Scene Description: originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received on 29 February 2024

view of church interior - southeast portal - tympanum

Scene Description: originally an exterior portal, now installed as the interior portal to the sacristy

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received on 29 February 2024

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received on 29 February 2024

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received on 29 February 2024

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received on 29 February 2024

INFORMATION

FontID: 25357LEM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jacques

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Rte de Thèze, 64450 Lème, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off the D944, 3 km NW of Thèze, 16 km N of Serres-Castet, 27 km N of Pau

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayonne

Historical Region: Béarn

Font Location in Church: inside the church, N aisle, W end

Date: n.d.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his photographs of this church and font, and for his information on the interesting chrismon above the doorway

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00026800]: "Edifice roman 12e siècle (porte sculptée 3e quart 12e siècle : actuellement porte de la sacristie) , restauré au 16e siècle et dans le 3e quart 18e siècle (date 1759, face sud du clocher)"

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: IM64001265]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion) [...] Cuve semi-sphérique à trou d'évacuation central et feuillure sur le bord interne, sur pied circulaire [...] Grès : taillé [...] H = 73,5 ; d = 93 [...] 17e siècle (?) [...] Il manque le couvercle de bois". A modern (19th-century) holy-water stoup of oval shape made of black marble in this church is noted also in Palissy [ref.: IM64001266].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.493268, -0.366683

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 29′ 35.77″ N, 0° 22′ 0.06″ W

UTM: 30T 712916 4818963

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy