Argeles-sur-Mer No. 1 / Argelès-sur-Mer / Argeles
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view of church exterior - east portal
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the portal opens through the east side; the tower is at the southwest end
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2006
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [(NUMP) 63P00939] [Négatif noir et blanc ; gélatino-bromure ; support pellicule] taken in 1963 by Jean Gourbeix (photographe), in Mémoire [ref.: AP63P00939] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1118/sap01_63p00939_p.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02512ARG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-Del-Prat [aka Nostra Senyora dels Prats]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 66700 Argelès-sur-Mer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Argeles-sur-Mer is on the N114, about 12 kms S of Perpignan
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan-Elne
Historical Region: Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Guillaume du Boulou [aka Guigelmus De Volono]
Church Notes: church here documented by 920 AD; present church chiefly 14thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103958]: "Construction du 14e siècle caractéristique de l'architecture gothique méridionale propagée par les ordres mendiants".
Font Notes:
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In his Notes sur l'art réligieux du Roussillon 2e partie: l'ornementation (Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, vol. 11, 1893: 361-362), Brutails mentions a number of ancient fonts, among which "Les fonts d'Argelès sont à pans coupés et l'inscription suivante, également ciselée sur la tranche et en caractères du XIIIe siècle, donne le nom de l'ouvrier qui les a fabriqués MAGISTER GUILLELMVS MARCHI DE VOLONO ME FECIT" and cites] L. de Bonnefoy as source, footnoting: "De Volono, du Boulou; Le Boulou est une commune de l'arrondissement de Céret". Described in Enlart (1902) as an octagonal unmounted baptismal font. Described in Chastel (1966): "sans support ... selon le modèle antique". Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM66000035] as a baptismal font of the 13th century bearing an inscription. The basin is octagonal, tapering towards the rounded underbowl; raised on a a squat round base. In 1963 it had a flat round cover, modern hinged in the middle; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.5463, 3.0225
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 32′ 46.68″ N, 3° 1′ 21″ E
UTM: 31T 501847 4710434
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Text: "MAGISTER GUILLELMUS DE VOLONO ME FECIT"
Inscription Source: Enlart (1902: 768)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged in the middle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902