Avignon No. 1

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view of font and cover

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symbol - shield - coat of arms - Antoine Flores

Scene Description: a/p Corblet's and the Dictionnaire des... (1966-) identification; Flores was bishop of Avignon 1503-1512.

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design element - motifs - floral, foliage and fruit

Scene Description: a horn of plenty, etc.

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 6

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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information

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02513AVI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Date Visited: 2001-06-11

Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Renaissance

Church / Chapel Name: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-des-Doms

Font Location in Church: The font is located just inside the entrance, to the right.

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Notes: Enlart's reference cites "Notre-Dame-des-Doms et Carmes d'Avignon", although the cathedral (Notre-Dame-des-Doms) and les Carmes (the "Cloître des Carmes") are different buildings in different areas of Avignon. The font in question is at the cathedral. -- original church ca. 1150 listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081814]

Church Address: Place du Palais, 84000 Avignon, France -- Tel.: +33 4 90 82 12 21

Site Location: Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe

Directions to Site: The northernmost building of the Palais de Papes area; up the stairs going left from the palace square

Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse d'Avignon

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC (?) church here)

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Baptismal font "sans support ... selon le modele antique" (Chastel, 1966, p. 287). Enlart (1902) includes it in a group of Renaissance fonts, unmounted and octagonal. Corblet (1881-1882) describes it as a hexagonal basin ornamented with rich foliage and the coat of arms of Antoine Florès, bishop of Avignon (1503-1512), which would date it to the early 16th century; tha coat of arms emblem confirmed in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-). On-site notes: the baptismal font at the cathedral of Avignon

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 645503 4868010

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.950833, 4.813333

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 57′ 3″ N, 4° 48′ 48″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hexagonal, unmounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Rim Thickness: 18-26 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm

Basin Depth: 43 cm

Basin Total Height: 74 cm

Height of Base: 52 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 126 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 106-121 cm (hexagonal)

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, II D 28
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. 143
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 773 footnote 1