Aix-en-Provence No. 1

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view of church interior - baptistery - painting

Image Source: digital inage of a photograph taken 9 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02470AIX

Church/Chapel: Cathédrale du Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Church Location: 34 Pl. des Martyrs de la Resistance, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France -- Tel.: +33 4 42 23 45 65

Country Name: France

Location: Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: In Aix-en-Provence, within the cathédral St-Sauveur grounds, between the cathedral itself, the cloister and another building.

Font Location in Church: The baptistery is in the right side of the old Romanesque cathedral, within the walls of the Gothic one

Century and Period: 5th - 11th century, Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptistery at Aix-en-Provence is an octagonal building with an ambulatory, covered with a 12th century Romanesque vault which is supported by eight columns with Corinthian capitals, probably reused from older buildings The baptistery has a 16th cent. cuppola and the octagonal "cuve baptismale" itself is right at the centre (this "cuve" is dated by Enlart (1902) to the 14th century, and by Corblet (1881-1882) to the 13th or 14th century. The baptistery is believed to be originally from the 5th century, though it has had many later modifications (description from Narcisse, 1979, p. 24). "Example remarquable" (Chastel, 1966, p. 287). As in Frejus, there is a tub-shaped font or well under one of the arches of the baptistery.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.531944, 5.447222

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 31′ 55″ N, 5° 26′ 50″ E

UTM: 31T 697743 4822799

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Guyon, Jean, Les premiers baptistères des Gaules (IVe-VIIIe siècles), Roma: Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell'Arte in Roma / Union des instituts étrangers de Rome, 2000

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994

Narcisse, Jean-Claude, Art roman en Provence, Rennes: Ouest France, 1979

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928