Flame-crowned architectural urn

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A pot à feu is a decorative architectural urn represented as emitting flame, not a working brazier on the church façade. The supplied English makes the carved flames explicit. It belongs with inverted scroll brackets and classical orders in the description of the damaged front. These older ornaments remain visible while religious emblems are hammered out and a republican motto is inscribed, so the building is altered rather than replaced wholesale.