Brives-sur-Charente / Brives-sous-Charente

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidenitfied - 12

Scene Description: Crozet describes them as three in each of the four parts of the basin side around Christ's Ascension

Image Source: digital image in the Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac), Université Bordeaux Montaigne [http://1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/items/show/74158] [accessed 3 November 2018]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Sylvain Machefert (e-mail of 7 Nevember 2018)

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol

Scene Description: Holding the Ascension mandorla a/p Crozet's description

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Sylvain Machefert (e-mail of 7 Nevember 2018)

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation?

Scene Description: Crozet suggests perhaps an Annunciation scene but has problems with the disc and the haloed male figure [cf. FontNotes]

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension

Scene Description: Idem

New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: A/p Crozet's description

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Sylvain Machefert (e-mail of 7 Nevember 2018)

inscription - partial

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the CESCM, reproduced in Bouhourd (2023)

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: including a transcription

Image Source: digital photograph by Chloé Bernard in Bouhourd (2023) [https://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/documentation-oeuvres/memoires-diplome-restaurateurs-patrimoine/daigues-je-nais-dalgues-je-meurs-etude-conservation-restauration-fonts-baptismaux-histories-xiie-siecle-brives-sur-charente-eglise] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: including a transcription

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700833] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700834] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700836] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700837] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700838] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the original shape of the inner basin that was being restored in 2023

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2019 by Cobber17 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Brives_sur_Charente.jpg] [accessed 3 November 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration -- notice the peculiar shape of the inner basin; it was not original but a later modification [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font after its 2023 restoration

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font after its 2023 restoration

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Crozet (1971: pl. XLV-A)

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Sylvain Machefert (e-mail of 7 Nevember 2018)

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1928 B&W photograph by Henri Heuzé [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00026588] [accessed 17 April 2024]

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view of object

Scene Description: built into one of the internal walls of the church

Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2018 by Willy Liégeois, in Patrimoine de Cognac [https://photocognac.com/a-voir-pres-de-cognac/brives-sur-charente/] [accessed 3 November 2018]

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virtues and vices - cardinal sins - Lust (Luxuria, Libido)

Scene Description: A/p Crozet's identification

INFORMATION

FontID: 00348BRI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Étienne

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 17800 Brives -sur-Charente, France

Country Name: France

Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located a few kms E of Cognac along the Charente river. The town of "Brives-Charensac" -probably not the one in Enlart- is in the Haute-Loire, near Le-Puy-en-Velay.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de La Rochelle et Saintes

Historical Region: Région de Pons / Poitou-Charentes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel against the NW corner

Date: ca. 1150?

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Sylvain Machefert <sylvain.machefert@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr> of the Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac) for the permission to reproduce their images [e-mail of 7 November 2018]

Church Notes: present church 1868 replaced an earlier one of which only the baptismal font remains

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

This is probably the font noted in Bourricaud (1880) as very interesting and deserving further study [NB: Bourricaud (ibid) names the place simply as 'Brives', but it is in the context of a group of other very interesting fonts in the area]. As reported in Crozet (1962) and (1971), the font at Brives-sur-Charente is a rectangular -quasi square- unmounted monolith located against the walls, which impedes the proper reading of all its sides; Crozet reads them as follows: east side: Ascension of Christ in a mandorla held by the four symbols of the Evangelists in the centre; a horizontal line divides the rest into four parts which contain 3 Apostles each (Peter, Paul and Barnabas, on the right, James and Philip on the left, are all identified by parts of the surviving inscription on the bands). In the south side Crozet describes a Harrowing of Hell scene with Christ in a mandorla with a bird and a lion on the sides; below, angels hold back a crowd of figures which include demons as well as Adam, Eve and other humans. The West side is totally hidden against the wall. The North side, according to Crozet, has a winged angel, one wing up and one down; his left hand awkwardly behind his back while the right hand holds forth a disc which he appears to offer to the two haloed figures who stand before him: the first appears male and holds a staff on which a bird is perched; the second appears female and holds her right hand on her belly while the left hand rests on her face in a gesture of sadness or humility (Crozet, 1962) and (1971). The entry for this church in Le Patrimoine de Cognac [https://photocognac.com/a-voir-pres-de-cognac/brives-sur-charente/] [accessed 3 November 2018] notes: "L’église Saint-Étienne de Brives-sur-Charente est récente. Elle a été consacrée en 1868 et reprend le style gothique du XIVe siècle. Elle remplace une église plus ancienne dont il ne reste aujourd’hui plus qu’une cuve baptismale classée au Mobilier historique et un chapiteau. Cette cuve, carrée et d’un seul bloc de calcaire siliceux, est un spécimen rare de la sculpture et du symbolisme du XIIe siècle. Certains traits caractéristiques comme les drapés permettent de la dater des années 1150. On y découvre sur trois faces, premièrement l’annonce faite à Marie, puis sur la face principale de la cuve, le Christ officiant dans le ciel et enfin le Christ descendant aux enfers sauveurs des âmes." The book Authorities in the Middle Ages: Influence, Legitimacy, and Power in Medieval [...] [ed. by Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola, Tuija Ainonen (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013): 93, 96 notes: "Sadly the Brives font is badly damaged and is only partially visible, being cemented into the wall of the nineteenth century church"; this same source mentions the dove on Christ's shoulder motif on the Brives font". Listed in Palissy [référence PM17000051]: "représentation humaine (tête) ; représentation animalière (serpent) Guirlandes de ruban perlé à noeud encadrant des têtes humaines ; groupes religieux. Inscription transcription : S.Barnabé S.Pierre S.André S.Jacques S.Philippe - La = 115 ; h = 80 - siècle 12e siècle". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00026588, OA017_20221700833, OA017_20221700834, OA017_20221700836, OA017_20221700837, OA017_20221700838]. The Institut National du Patrimoine has an entry [https://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/regie-oeuvres/oeuvres-objets/fonts-baptismaux-romans] [accessed 17 April 2024] in which it informs about the plan to restore this work: "L'œuvre ici présentée a été confiée au département des restaurateurs de l'institut national du patrimoine dans le cadre de l'enseignement de la conservation-restauration qui se déroule dans les ateliers de chaque spécialité, tout d’abord à travers des exercices d’observation et de description (constat d’état), puis d’interprétation (diagnostic, pronostic), enfin par la mise en œuvre d'un traitement. Les objets, œuvres et documents confiés au département appartiennent à des institutions publiques." The plan culminated in Mariane Bouhourd's 'mémoire' (2023) [https://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/documentation-oeuvres/memoires-diplome-restaurateurs-patrimoine/daigues-je-nais-dalgues-je-meurs-etude-conservation-restauration-fonts-baptismaux-histories-xiie-siecle-brives-sur-charente-eglise] [accessed 17 April 2024]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.6711, -0.4608

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 40′ 15.96″ N, 0° 27′ 38.88″ W

UTM: 30T 697776 5060641

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Height of Basin Side: 84 cm* / 80 cm**

Basin Total Height: 84 cm* / 80 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm* / 80 cm** / 87***

Trapezoidal Basin: 105 x 95 cm* / 115 cm** / 110 cm*** / 109 cm****

Notes on Measurements: *Crozet (1962) / ** Palissy [PM17000051] / *** INP / **** Bouhourd (2023)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Reported by Crozet as the names of some of the Apostles: Peter, Paul, Barnabe, James and Philip still legible

Inscription Location: On the bands which surround the figures

Inscription Text: "[?]S BARNABE IHOS S PETRI / S ANDEA S IACOB FIL[?]"

Inscription Source: identified in Crozet (1962: 45)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round; modern

REFERENCES

Bulletin Monumental, 1962

Bouhourd, Mariane, "D’aigues je nais, d’algues je meurs: Etude et conservation-restauration des font baptismaux historiés (XIIe siècle ; Brives-sur-Charente, égllise Sainte-Etienne)", [Paris], 2023

Bourricaud, A. [Antoine], "Fonts baptismaux de St-Eutrope de Saintes", 2e série, tome 1 (tome V de la collection), Recueil de la Commission des arts & monuments historiques de la Charente-Inférieure et Société d'archéologie de Saintes, 1880-1881, pp. 204-208; r["References"]

Crozet, René, Fonts baptismaux d'Ars-sur-le-Né (Charente) et de Brives-sur-Charente (Charente-Maritime), Paris: Société française d'archéologie, 1962

Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971

Dangibeaud, Charles, Ce qu'il faut voir dans la Charente-Inférieure, [s.l.]: [s.n.], 1905

Fellmann, abbé, "Cuves baptismales de Brives-sur-Charente et de Saint-Eugène", 2e serie, t. 11, Recueil de la Commission des arts & monuments historiques de la Charente-Inférieure et Société d'archéologie de Saintes, 1883, pp. 29-33; r["References"]

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2024-04-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2024-04-17 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.