Bagneres-de-Bigorre No. 1 / Aquæ bigerritanas / Aquae Convenarum / Bagnères-de-Bigorre / Banhèras de Bigòrra / Begorra / Vicus Aquensis

Results: 14 records

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design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: on the bases of the outer columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 3

Scene Description: on some of the capitals of the outer columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on some of the capitals of the outer columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on the bases of the outer columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 10 July 2001

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

view of canopy - finial

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ by John, finial of the elaborate late-17thC (?) canopy over the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 June 2007 by Florent Pécassou [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bagnereseglisestvincent.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated / CC-BY-SA-2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover and doors open

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the outer "armoire creusée" which hides the old stone font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 10 July 2001

INFORMATION

FontID: 02527BAG

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Vincent

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent

Church Location: 11 rue Pasteur, 65200 Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France -- Tel.: +33 5 62 95 08 08

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Bagnères-de-Bigorre is 21 km S of Tarbes on the D935, 20 kms E of Lourdes.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes et Lourdes

Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side, by a pillar

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Campan, Roche, Villeseque, Carnac (France)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Monsieur l'abbé for providing us with access to the original font [the cabinet is normally kept locked] and also for pointing out to us the font at nearby Campan

Church Notes: original church may have been an Early Christian site -- present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00095337] as built extra-muros in the 13thC, modified 14th, 15th, 16th, 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Like those at Roche, Villeseque and Carnac, this font is encased in an "armoire creusée" (Chastel, 1966, p. 288). On-site notes: this baptismal is a good example of the influence of fad and fashion in the life of the liturgical object. The viewer looks in vain for the font inside the church; only a large late-17th century holy-water stoup is visible in the church. At the west end of the nave a large octagonal late 17th-century armoire serves as base to a tall canopy whose finial is a baptism of Christ sculpture group; the predominant colours are cream and brown. Hidden under this monument of cabinetry (the work of the Maison Ferrère in 1686) is a large 13th-century stone font. The cylindrical basin, mostly plain but for a a roll moulding at each end of the basin sides, top and bottom; as in the case of the Tournai fonts, the "capitals" of the six outer columns of the base are beautifully decorated, in this case, with fleur de lis; the base of these columns -six altogether- consists of a thin roll moulding, then a larger one with ball motifs at 90-degree angles, and finally a square plinth or lower base. There is also a plain cylindrical stem under the centre of the underbasin. The base stands on the original floor of the church, well below the present one.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.065251, 0.150096

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 3′ 54.91″ N, 0° 9′ 0.35″ E

UTM: 31T 267948 4772003

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the drain is square, 10x10 cm

Rim Thickness: 17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 107 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 141 cm

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Height of Basin Side: 24 cm

Basin Total Height: 45 cm

Height of Base: 55 cm

Height of Central Column: 36 cm

Height of Side Columns: 36 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: Late 17th century?

Material: wood

REFERENCES

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966