Germigny-des-Pres / Germigny-des-Prés / Germingy / Gémigny / Gemigny / Prés

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Moreena, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2005 by Moreena [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_de_Germigny-des-Prés.jpg] [accesed 5 March 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Jolivet, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2014 by Daniel Jolivet [https://flickr.com/photos/26082117@N07/13606077923] [accessed 5 March 2020]

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view of church interior - apse - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de la Très-Sainte-Trinité ou Oratoire carolingien de Germigny-des-Prés : mosaïque byzantine et abside centrale au centre de laquelle se trouve une Pietà du 16e siècle"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2015 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germigny-des-Prés_-_Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_07.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2020]

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view of church interior - apse - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche Très-Sainte-Trinité (Heiligste Dreifaltigkeit) in Germigny-des-Prés im Département Loiret (Region Centre-Val de Loire/Frankreich), Mosaik aus dem frühen 9. Jahrhundert; Darstellung: Bundeslade, Engel und Hand Gottes"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 8 May 2019 by GFriehalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germigny-des-Prés_Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_Mosaïque_907.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2022]

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view of church interior - apse - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche Très-Sainte-Trinité (Heiligste Dreifaltigkeit) in Germigny-des-Prés im Département Loiret (Region Centre-Val de Loire/Frankreich), Mosaik aus dem frühen 9. Jahrhundert; Darstellung: Bundeslade, Engel und Hand Gottes"

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Image Source: digital photograph 8 May 2019 by GFriehalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germigny-des-Prés_Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_Mosaïque_913.jpg] [accessed 29 January 2022]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2015 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germigny-des-Prés_-_Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_03.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2020]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image [Cl8644] of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W01194] [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP45W01194] [accessed 5 March 2010]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W postcard by Estel, provided by Pol Herman

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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an 11 March 1997 B&W photograph By Jacques Pierre, in Mémoire [ref.: AP80105054] [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80LO5054] [accessed 5 March 2010]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: a replica font? [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pymouss, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2015 by Pymouss [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germigny-des-Prés_-_Église_de_la_Très-Sainte-Trinité_12.jpg] [accessed 5 March 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00153GER
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de la Très-Sainte-Trinité / Oratoire carolingien de Germigny-des-Prés
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: route de Saint-Martin, 45110 Germigny-des-Prés, France -- Tel.: +33 2 38 58 27 97
Country Name: France
Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D60, S of the D952 and N of the Loire river, just SE of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, 20-25 km ESE of Orleans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans
Historical Region: Val de Loire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: early-9thC church; damaged by fire mid-9thC; restored 11thC; practically destroyed 1560s; re-built as parish church 16thC, and much modified in later centuries -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098783]
Schiller (1971) mentions "Germingy-des-Prés"[sic], near Orléans" as the place. There is only one "Gémigny" [i.e., Germigny] just outside Orleans in a NW direction. "The stone relief of the font ... which has been dated to the 11th century, shows Jesus kneeling to receive baptism and John pouring water from a dish. Neither motif is found elsewhere before the 14th century and both are more common in the 15th." (Schiller, 1971, footnote 29 on p. 142). NB: the font described as 11th-century is probably the one at Germigny-des-Pres, an imitation tub-shaped cylindrical baptismal font ornamented with a Baptism of Christ scene [source: a brief description and a full image of this imitation is available at http://jfbradu2.free.fr/mosaiques/germigny/espagnol/07mobiliaro.htm]. The entry for the medieval font in Palissy [ref.: PM45001031] [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM45001031] [accessed 5 March 2020] is accompanied by a photograph of the object and notes: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale octogonale) [...] Taille de pierre [...] Dimensions normalisées 71 ; 90", located inside the church, "Sur le sol à l'est du bas-côté nord". Additionally a 12th-century "piscine baptismale" is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM45000284]: "Piscine pédiculée portative [...] Pierre : taillé [...] Dimensions normalisées H = 63 [...] 12e siècle [...] La taille malhabile de la pierre et les tores qui encadrent cette piscine rappellent les chapiteaux de la chapelle dite de Saint-Mummole à Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, ce qui donnerait à penser que la piscine date de la restauration de l'église de Germigny-des-Prés faite par l'abbé Hugues au 11e siècle"; its location inside the church in the Palissy entry is given as "Absidiole principale" [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM45000284] [accessed 5 March 2020] [NB: a lavabo, perhaps?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.8463, 2.2666
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 50′ 46.68″ N, 2° 15′ 59.76″ E
UTM: 31T 445130 5299478

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971