Aix-en-Provence No. 1
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view of church interior - baptistery
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Image Source: digital inage of a photograph taken 9 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church interior - baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital inage of a photograph taken 9 June 2001 by BSI
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02470AIX
Object Type: Baptistery
Date Visited: 2001-06-09
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th - 11th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Cathédrale du Saint-Sauveur d'Aix-en-Provence
Font Location in Church: The baptistery is in the right side of the old Romanesque cathedral, within the walls of the Gothic one
Church Patron Saint(s): Our Saviour
Church Address: 34 Pl. des Martyrs de la Resistance, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France -- Tel.: +33 4 42 23 45 65
Site Location: Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
Directions to Site: In Aix-en-Provence, within the cathédral St-Sauveur grounds, between the cathedral itself, the cloister and another building.
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 31T 697743 4822799
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.531944, 5.447222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 31′ 55″ N, 5° 26′ 50″ E
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-, II D 5-6
- 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, vol. 1: p. 109-117
- Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966, p. 287
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 51
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 4
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 773 footnote 1 (on the font)
- 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, ill. and caption on p. 20
- Narcisse, Jean-Claude, Art roman en Provence, Rennes: Ouest France, 1979, p. 24
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 14