Dinan No. 1
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Results: 17 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the dome-shaped cover is very dark and hardly visible here
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by Léon Gaucherel in the BNF [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b77416536] [accessed 2 February 2014]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing some of the damage
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view of basin - interior
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animal - fish - 2
Scene Description: Swimming clockwise
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: On the inside surface of the basin
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human figure - male - weight-lifter
Scene Description: One of four
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human figure - male - weight-lifter
Scene Description: One of four
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human figure - male - weight-lifter
![Although identified in Chatel (1966) as caryatids supporting the holy water stoup [sic], the Phaidon guide to France mentions a baptismal font with figures. On-site observation showed a male figure wearing a wrestler or weight-lifter belt.](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/DIN0001329_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Although identified in Chatel (1966) as caryatids supporting the holy water stoup [sic], the Phaidon guide to France mentions a baptismal font with figures. On-site observation showed a male figure wearing a wrestler or weight-lifter belt.
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amadalvarez, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2013 by Amadalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinan_esglSt_Sauver_8246_resize.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2011 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinan_(22)_Basilique_Saint-Sauveur_Façade_occidentale_2.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - east view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2014 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinan_(22)_Basilique_Saint-Sauveur_Chevet_02.JPG] [accessed 27 May 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Basilique Saint-Sauveur à Dinan, vue des remparts."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle), 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2010 by Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinan_-_Saint-Sauveur_vue_des_remparts.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Édouard Hue, 2013
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view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chœur de la basilique Saint-Sauveur de Dinan (France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Édouard Hue, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2013 by Édouard Hue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chœur_de_la_basilique_Saint-Sauveur,_Dinan,_France.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2016]
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view of font cover
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view of stoup
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00231SAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-06-16
Font Date: ca. 1140?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 17th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Other fonts and stoups in the Cotes-d'Armor have similar figures around/holding-up the basin. The Swedish font at Gråmanstorp (Scania) has a similarly "belted" figure, as do the "Finnskulpturerna" at Lund's Cathedral.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Sauveur / Basilique Saint-Sauveur de Dinan
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, north side, to the left of the altar
Church Patron Saint(s): Jesus Christ
Church Notes: church founded early-12thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00089077] -- There is one other font/stoup of interest in this church
Church Address: 14 place Saint-Sauveur, 22100 Dinan, France
Site Location: Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Dinan lies about 17 kms S of St-Malô, 3 kms E, off the N176
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo
Historical Region: formerly Côtes-du-Nord
Additional Comments: fish stoup / animal stoup
Font Notes:
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The Phaidon guide to France (1985) mentions a "12C font with caryatids" in the basilica of the Saint-Sauveur. This is probably the same liturgical object included in Chastel's Histoire générale des églises de France... (1966), where it is identified as a holy-water stoup with figures. There is a modern stoup at the église de Saint-Malo, also in Dinan, which has a devil supporting the holy-water stoup [cf. Index entry for Dinan No. 2]. Pudelko (1932) shows a basin with very large figures carved on the slanting sides embracing it. Carlsson (1976) dates it to ca. 1140. Described in Autissier (2005), who notes a few other stoups in the region [Perros-Guirec, Saint-Malo, Corseul, Erquy and Landébia], but these rather too schematic and not in the category of the one in Dinan. Sutissier (ibid.) suggests a date in the mid 12th century. On-site viewing ascertained the presence of four figures, one of them clearly identifiable as a wrestler by the type of belt worn, holding up the large basin in their arms; all heads have been broken off and are missing; the legs of these figures make up the link with the base, the latter being a set of three round moldings . The inside of the basin is ribbed and has two fish carved as if swimming in it. Viollet-le-Duc had already reported the missing heads by 1875 (Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875, p. 542). Enlart (1902, p. 785 footnote 6) refers to the carved fish swimming on the inside of a stoup at the church of the Saint-Sauveur, obviously referring to this font. [Cf. Index entry for a stoup in Courseult, in the same area of France, also with fish "swimming" on the inside of the basin well]. This font may have originally come from the commune of Saint-Baron. A footnote in Lasteyrie (1929) makes reference to "le bénitier de l'église de Dinan" as having figures whose odd clothes are closer to the "costume breton des temps modernes que de celui d'aucun siècle du moyen âge", and therefore states that a 17th-century dating would be more appropriate for this object. He attributes its archaic appearance to the coarseness of the granite of which it is carved. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM22000144] as a holy-water stoup of the 12th century.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.453332, -2.041698
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 27′ 11.99″ N, 2° 2′ 30.11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin?
Drainage Notes: Probably a central drain, though the hole appears now covered in cement (?)
Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 84-85 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 107 cm
Basin Depth: 40 cm
Basin Total Height: 72 cm
Height of Base: 30 cm
Font Height (with Plinth): 102 cm
Square Base Dimensions: 83 x 76 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI. [NB: the height of basin is measured to the feet of the figures. The measurements of the base include a square moulding or plinth; its length and width are given as "square base"]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1965
Material: metal, bronze
Notes: The lid has the date "1965" inscribed in it. There is evidence of the old metal hinges on the upper rim.
REFERENCES
- Autissier, Anne, La sculpture romane en Bretagne, XIe-XIIe siècles, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005, p. 222, 268
- Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976, p. 75 and pl. 57
- Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966, p. 288
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, ill. on p. 101
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 785 footnote 6
- Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 712 footnote 1
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 240
- Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932, pl. III
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868, t. 5, p. 542