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animal - fabulous animal or monster - protome - wearing headdress - with prey - human prey

Scene Description: bust of a lion with a human female head were a pleated cape-like head-dress; a human head agape caught in its body

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome - with prey - human prey

Scene Description: a human head peers out from the mouth of the lion

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

cleric - monk - bearded - hooded

bust or protome-like, similar to to the other two figures around the base; the pleated cape-like part is very similar to the one worn by the female-head figure

Scene Description: bust or protome-like, similar to to the other two figures around the base; the pleated cape-like part is very similar to the one worn by the female-head figure

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - double arches

Scene Description: without centre support

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

information

Scene Description: plaque by the replica of Adeloch's sarcophagus

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the modern metal frame supports the present baptismal dish

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Source caption: "Église abbatiale Saints-Pierre et Paul [...] Vue sur le chevet et les absides semi-circulaires à deux niveaux, correspondant aux chapelles Ste-Catherine (bas) et St-Sébastien (haut)."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église abbatiale Saints-Pierre et Paul [...] Vue sur le chevet et les absides semi-circulaires à deux niveaux, correspondant aux chapelles Ste-Catherine (bas) et St-Sébastien (haut)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuwiller_StPierre-Paul_251.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal

Scene Description: 12th-13thC? Portal opens into the north transept

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - detail

Scene Description: atlante on the west side

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - detail

Scene Description: on the west side

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - detail

Scene Description: atlante of the east side

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - detail

Scene Description: capitals on the east side

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - detail

Scene Description: capital on the east side

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - north side - transept - portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 26 June 2015 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuwiller_StPierre-Paul_095.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - transept - portal

Scene Description: 12thC? -- opening into the south transept

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - transept - portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église abbatiale Saints-Pierre et Paul [...] Massif occidental (XVIIIe)."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuwiller_StPierre-Paul_099.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuwiller_StPierre-Paul_140.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neuwiller_StPierre-Paul_34.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2017]

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view of church interior - sarcophagus

replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sarcophagus

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sarcophagus

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sarcophagus

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sarcophagus

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sarcophagus - detail

Scene Description: replica of the 12thC sarcophagus made for bishop Adeloch; the original [Palissy ref.: PM67000550] is at the church of Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of photograph taken 10 August 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00335NEU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise [ancienne abbatiale] paroissiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: rue du Général-Koenig, 67330 Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, France

Country Name: France

Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Neuwiller-lès-Saverne is 14 kms N of Saverne, in the canton de Bouxwiller, about 60 kms NW of Strasbourg,

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg

Historical Region: Vosges du Nord, Alsace

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a N side chapel

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: original abbey church here ca. 723

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Cahiers d'archéologie d'Alsace, VII (1935-1938). Corblet (1881-1882) mentions a font in "Nueviller, Alsace" but he attributes it to the "ép[oque]. ogiv[ale]." Le Patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin (1999) includes the church but does not mention this font. Noted and illustrated in Braun (2010), who dates the font to the late-12th or early-13th century, and notes that the three sculpted figures were the original rests of the basin, the two-step plinth added at a later date. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM67000196 and IM67014350] with date ca. 1200: "Fonts baptismaux datables autour de 1200. L'arrière-train des 3 figures qui supportaient la cuve, primitivement dégagé, a été caché par la maçonnerie ajoutée à la base de la cuve et par deux degrés placés sur le pourtour, rénovations qui pourraient remonter à la campagne de travaux menée par l'architecte Boeswilwald. Le récipient interne est plus récent, le couvercle moderne." On-site notes: baptismal font consisting of a cylindrical basin decorated with a well-rendered blind arcade of double-curve arches on the sides; it is raised on a two-step plinth [cf. supra], the upper step opened to accommodate three protomes/busts which adorn the lower part of the font [cf. supra]: 1)hooded and bearded male figure, perhaps a monk; 2)a seated lion holds a human head in its mouth; 3)an animal-looking figure holding a human head between its legs [NB: Braun (ibid.) identifies it a fabulous creature, the animal body complemented with a female head, its hair combed, a veil with pleats hanging down on the sides in pleats; the head it holds in its legs is human and has an open mouth. This is a finely executed work.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.823611, 7.405556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 49′ 25″ N, 7° 24′ 20″ E

UTM: 32U 382969 5409074

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*

Basin Depth: 55 cm*

Basin Total Height: 94 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 122 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM67014350]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cahiers d'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Alsace, 5, 1927-1929, pp. 144-145; r["References"]

Braun, Suzanne, Alsace romane, Dijon: Faton, 2010

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

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985