Treves No. 1 / Trèves / Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunault

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B: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several, alternating with scallop pattern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

BH01: human figure - male - head - bearded - long mustache

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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BH02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head

Scene Description: a beast's head, but not so clear which beast

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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BH02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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BH02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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BH03: human figure - male - head - bearded - mustache

Scene Description: a "Roman" square beard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

BH04: human figure - male - head - moustache

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: several bands of it around the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [(NUMP) LP005867] [ Négatif noir et blanc ; Gélatino-bromure ; Support verre] taken before 1923 by Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis (1862-1923), in Mémoire [ref.: APLP005867] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0172/sap01_lp005867_p.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing significant damage to the basin side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 13 September 2017)

view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: the round tower is not part of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2013 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur_de_l'église_Saint-Aubin_de_Trèves.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church interior

Scene Description: showing the position of the former font [now a stoup, on the left] and the present font [on the right]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [(NUMP) LP005866] [ Négatif noir et blanc ; Gélatino-bromure ; Support verre] taken before 1923 by Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis (1862-1923), in Mémoire [ref.: APLP005866] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2069/sap04_80l02682_p.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2013 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur_de_l'église_Saint-Aubin_de_Trèves.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 October 2009 by Coyau [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Aubin_de_Trèves_16.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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view of church interior - south entrance

Scene Description: note the holy-water stoup (?) near the south door

Image Source: Mallet (pl. 227)

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view of font

Scene Description: now used as holy-water stoup

Image Source: digital image of a colour slide photograph [(NUMP) 80L02682] taken 5 May 1997 by Jacques Pierre, in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L02682] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2069/sap04_80l02682_p.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02483TRE

Church/Chapel: Eglise de Trèves / Église paroissiale Saint-Aubin

Church Patron Saints: St. Aubin [aka Albinus of Angers]

Church Location: Trèves, 49350 Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunault, France

Country Name: France

Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire

Directions to Site: Located off the D751, about 10 km NW of Saumur, now in the commune of Chênehutte-Trèves-Cunault, on the banks of the Loire river [the church of Trèves is in the centre of the cemetery]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church. at the W end of the nave, just right of the entrance [now used a s holy-water stoup]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Claveyrolas for his photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: church ca. 1106; modified 13th, 15th and 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00109381]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

One of two fonts situated at the entrance, this one to the right as you enter. The basin appears of a darker stone than the base and plinth, and is probably the older part of the font; round basin with four heads at 90-degree angles of the basin upper side; the sides appear to have at least two bands of double scallop motif; the base is cylindrical with roll moulding at top and bottom ;the square lower base may be of the type designed to collect the excess holy water from the basin, though it is not clear from the illustrations. Lasteyrie (1929) confirms that the original base of this font was lost and that the replacement is of difficult dating. His illustration of the basin of this font shows two of the heads: the left one is of a bearded man, while the one on the right is definitely of a beast, though not clear which animal it represents. Illustrated in Mallet (1984: 90, 185). Described and illustrated in Herbécourt (1959: 142 and pl. 31) as a 12th-century baptismal font decorated with scalloped pattern and four protruding heads, now used as holy-water stoup. Herbécourt associates the four heads with the Fours Rivers of Paradise. Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 623) as a hemispheric basin mounted on a cylindrical base with a square lower base and dated from the 12th century; the basin has four very well-carved heads ornamenting the upper basin side at 90-degree angles; the three visible in the source, appear typical of the Norman "repertoire": a bear or boar head, and two human heads with Norman features; the sides of the basin are further ornamented with two bands of double-scallop, face-to-face, all around the basin. The cylindrical base is plain between the upper and lower roll mouldings; the lower base has partial buttresses at the corners. Described in Drake (2002: 65-66), who qualifies the two animal heads as grotesque, while he likens the two bearded male ones to those on the font at Beauvechain. Listed and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L02682]: "bénitier avec têtes sculptées". [cf. Index entry for Treves No. 2 for another baptismal font on the opposite side of the nave]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.322913, -0.187971

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 19′ 22.49″ N, 0° 11′ 16.7″ W

UTM: 30T 712488 5244884

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm

Basin Depth: 27 cm[?]

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm

Notes on Measurements: Measurements given as "87 x 93 x 27 cm" in Le patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 623)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de Maine-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929

Mallet, Jacques, Art roman de l'ancien Anjou, Paris: A. Picard, 1984