Brives-sur-Charente / Brives-sous-Charente

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view of font in context

showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700838] [accessed 17 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700837] [accessed 17 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700836] [accessed 17 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700834] [accessed 17 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of basin - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph 20 December 2019 by Christian Barbier [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA017_20221700833] [accessed 17 April 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

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

A/p Crozet's description
Scene Description: A/p Crozet's description
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac), 2018
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 - Apostles - unidenitfied - 12

Crozet describes them as three in each of the four parts of the basin side around Christ's Ascension
Scene Description: Crozet describes them as three in each of the four parts of the basin side around Christ's Ascension
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac), 2018
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

Holding the Ascension mandorla a/p Crozet's description
Scene Description: Holding the Ascension mandorla a/p Crozet's description
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac), 2018
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)

view of church exterior - southwest end

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cobber17, 2009
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of font and cover in context

showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Université Bordeaux Montaigne - Fonds photographique d'art médiéval - Centre Léo Drouyn (Bouliac), 2018
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)

view of object

built into one of the internal walls of the church
Scene Description: built into one of the internal walls of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrimnoine de Cognac, 2018
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]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font

showing the font after its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font after its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

showing the font after its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font after its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

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]
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]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font

showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - east side

showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Scene Description: showing the font before its 2023 restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1971
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Crozet (1971: pl. XLV-A)
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view of basin - upper view

showing the original shape of the inner basin that was being restored in 2023
Scene Description: showing the original shape of the inner basin that was being restored in 2023
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

inscription - partial

including a transcription
Scene Description: including a transcription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
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inscription - partial

including a transcription
Scene Description: including a transcription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

inscription - partial

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chloé Bernard / Institut nationale du Patrimoine, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the CESCM, reproduced in Bouhourd (2023)
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New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation?

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

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

A/p Crozet's identification
Scene Description: A/p Crozet's identification

INFORMATION

Font ID: 00348BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Étienne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel against the NW corner
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: present church 1868 replaced an earlier one of which only the baptismal font remains
Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, 17800 Brives -sur-Charente, France
Site Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: much altered font / restored font [cf. FontNotes]
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]
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]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 697776 5060641
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.6711, -0.4608
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 40′ 15.96″ N, 0° 27′ 38.88″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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 Location: On the bands which surround the figures
Inscription Text: "[?]S BARNABE IHOS S PETRI / S ANDEA S IACOB FIL[?]"
Inscription Notes: Reported by Crozet as the names of some of the Apostles: Peter, Paul, Barnabe, James and Philip still legible
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, [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]
  • 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; p. 204
  • Crozet, René, Fonts baptismaux d'Ars-sur-le-Né (Charente) et de Brives-sur-Charente (Charente-Maritime), Paris: Société française d'archéologie, 1962, p. 41-47
  • Crozet, René, Fonts baptismaux d'Ars-sur-le-Né (Charente) et de Brives-sur-Charente (Charente-Maritime), Paris: Société française d'archéologie, 1962, p. 42-47
  • Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971, p. 116-117 and pl. XLV-A
  • Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971, p. 117 and pl. XLV-A
  • 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; p. 29-33
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. 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. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.