Merlande No. 1 / La Chapelle-Gonaguet

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Scene Description: as illustrated in Corblet (1881-1882) and labelled "Nerlandes" [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "La Chapelle-Gonaguet [...] Prieuré de Merlande"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2008 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Chapelle-Gonaguet_Merlande_5.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast end

Scene Description: Source caption: "La Chapelle-Gonaguet [...] Prieuré de Merlande"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2008 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Chapelle-Gonaguet_Merlande_1.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Merlande - Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2021 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merlande_-_Prieuré_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_16.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of church interior - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Merlande - Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2021 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merlande_-_Prieuré_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_08.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of church interior - crypt - east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Prieuré de Merlande : la crypte"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2008 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prieuré_Merlande_3.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of font

Scene Description: as illustrated in Corblet (1881-1882) and labelled "Nerlandes" [cf. FontNotes]

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "La cuve baptismale placée à l’entrée est romane."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Sébastien Colpin [https://www.photosdesebastiencolpin.fr/2025/03/le-prieure-de-merlande-un-magnifique-patrimoine-religieux-au-coeur-de-la-foret.html] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of font - southeast sie

Scene Description: Source caption: "Merlande - Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2021 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merlande_-_Prieuré_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_24.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "La cuve baptismale placée à l’entrée est romane." -- showing the font on the right side of the image

Image Source: digital photograph in Sébastien Colpin [https://www.photosdesebastiencolpin.fr/2025/03/le-prieure-de-merlande-un-magnifique-patrimoine-religieux-au-coeur-de-la-foret.html] [accessed 6 April 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25851MER

Church/Chapel: Eglise prieurale de Merlande

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Rue du Prieuré de Merlande, La Chapelle-Monaget, France

Country Name: France

Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D2, in the municipality and 3 km NE of La Chapelle-Gonaguet, about 12 km NW of Périgueux

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 12th century (?), Late Romanesque

Church Notes: chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist built 1142 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00082483]: "12e siècle ; 16e siècle [...] Une première chapelle fut construite par Elie Audouin, second abbé de Chancelade, au début du 12e siècle, et forme le choeur actuel de l'église. Elle fut agrandie par l'adjonction de deux travées surmontées de coupoles. Des animaux et un décor végétal ornent les treize chapiteaux de la chapelle primitive. L'angle nord-est du choeur est flanqué d'une tour fortifiée. Des vestiges de bâtiments monastiques forment une aile perpendiculaire à l'élévation sud du choeur. Le logis prioral du 16e siècle, au sud-ouest, présente un rectangle perpendiculaire à l'église, et flanqué à l'angle sud-ouest d'une tour circulaire."

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Monolithic baptismal font of square desing inside and out; the south side of the basin [present location, 2021] has a pair of shallow-carved pointed arch or windows, while the east side is totally plain; the lower part of the block has a pointed arch cut out on each side; there is evidence of cuttings made to the upper basin rim to accommodate cover anchorings but there is no cover present now [2021]. [NB: this must be the font listed in Corblet (1881-1882) as "Nerlandes" -- cf. BSI entry]. A holy-water stoup in the interior of the priory church is illustrated in GP / Grand Périgueux [https://www.tourisme-grandperigueux.fr/blog/le-prieure-de-merlande/] [accessed 6 April 2025]. The entry for this church in Sébastien Colpin [https://www.photosdesebastiencolpin.fr/2025/03/le-prieure-de-merlande-un-magnifique-patrimoine-religieux-au-coeur-de-la-foret.html] [accessed 6 April 2025] notes: "La cuve baptismale placée à l’entrée est romane." [NB: one of Colpin's photographs of the interior of the church shows two objects: an octagonal pedestal holy-water stoup standing at the west end of the centre aisle by the west entranceway; the other, a square tub stands in the northwest corner; this font appears to match the description and illustration that Corblet (1881-1882) locates in 'Nerlandes', Dordogne -- cf. BSI entry for Nerlandes]. Mérimée has a listing for the stoup [ref.: PA00082483]: "Eglise, bénitier". The stoup is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00032180]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.240278, 0.635278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 14′ 25″ N, 0° 38′ 7″ E

UTM: 31T 314405 5012363

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: bo lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.