Venasque No. 1 / Vénasque
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02471VEN
Object Type: Baptistery
Date Visited: 2001-06-23
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th - 7th centurymodified in the 11th - 12th century], Early Christian [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Baptistery near the cathedral/church of Notre-Dame
Church Address: Pl. du Presbytère, 84210 Venasque, France -- Tel.: +33 4 90 66 62 01
Site Location: Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Vénasque lies 12 kms SE of Carpentras on the D4, about the same distance NW of Avignon.
Additional Comments: recycled baptistery: some parts are 7th century or earlier and were used to rebuild the baptistery in the 11th-12th century
Font Notes:
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Just north of the Romanesque church of Notre-Dame in Venasque there is a little cruciform building with two windows (east and west sides) and each arm of the cross with an apse; the vault of the baptistery is supported on four central square pillars dated probably to the 11th-12th century restoration, whereas the eight granit columns which serve as support to the arches opening to the apses are much older, perhaps from the original (?) late-6th-century building; the columns of the apses are marble, and there appear to be many other parts and fragments recycled from paleo-Christian sarcophagi, but the vault and the font itself are from the second quarter of the 12th century [Enlart (1902) dates it to the 11th cent.]. The same source questions whether it was even a baptistery and not some sort of funerary chapel (a/p description in Narcisse, 1979, p. 25-26, and Labande, 1904, 287ff). An illustration in Chastel (1966, p. [7]) shows a barrel-like container in the middle of the baptistry: "sans support, selon le modele antique [... ] prennent parfois l'aspect d'un cuvier". (ibid., p. 287). The Dictionnaire des églises..., (1966-) dwells on the irregular shape of the structure, which it blames on "la maladresse des ouvriers" and compares the ancient part of this baptistery to the apse at Vaison; it also states that the original building had three windows, one each at the E, W and N apses, but that the last two were walled-in by the expansion. [cf. Index entry for Venasque No. 2 for details of the basin]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 672027 4873777
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.997, 5.14554
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 59′ 49.2″ N, 5° 8′ 43.94″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: cruciform, Greek cross
Drainage System: cf. Index entry for Venasque No. 2 for details]
Drainage Notes: [cf. Index entry for Venasque No. 2 for details]
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, II D 169-170
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, II D 169-170
- 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. 186-189
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 19, 123
- Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966, p. 7, 287
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 74-75
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 772
- Labande, L.H., "Le baptistère de Venasque, Vaucluse, France", Bulletin archeologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1904
- Narcisse, Jean-Claude, Art roman en Provence, Rennes: Ouest France, 1979, p. 25-26
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 14