Mont-de-Marsan
Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025
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Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph 3 July 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: "Mont-de-Marsan - La Madeleine"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1900-1905 postcard by Gautreau https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont-de-Marsan_-_La_Madeleine_1.jpg [accessed 26 January 2026]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: " Ancien pont du Bourg (détruit en 1816) et ancienne église de la Madeleine (effondrée en 1821) à Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France"
Copyright Statement: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Image Source: digital image of a 19thC drawing by Bullura del. et Lemercier sculpt., in the Archives départementales des Landes
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 3 July 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author
view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 3 July 2025 by Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00993ARM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 14th century (?), Medieval?
Church / Chapel Name: Eglise Saint-Marie-Madeleine, Mont-de-Marsan
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Church Notes: Priory chapel dedicated to St Mary Magdalene documented 12thC; re-built 14thC; demolished 1820s; re-built 1829 -- present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00083976]: "Eglise du 19e siècle construite par Arthaud à l'emplacement d'une église gothique du 14e siècle qui s'est effondrée le 6 avril 1821."
Church Address: 35 rue Victor Hugo, Mont-de-Marsan
Site Location: Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Directions to Site: Located off the D932, about 55 km N of Pau
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Aire et Dax
Additional Comments: disasppeared font? the one from the demolished medieval church here
Town/City Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-de-Marsan
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font of the present 19th-century church is modern: a plain octagonal basin with a tall underbowl chamfer, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal; the inner basin is divided into two compartments. [NB: we have no information on the font of the demolished mediaval church here].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Carlos Abascal Ruiz de Aguirre for his photographs of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 700749 4863037
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.8931, -0.5006
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 53′ 35.16″ N, 0° 30′ 2.16″ W