Evreux No. 1 / Évreux

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BF: animal - fabulous animal or monster - snail with human head

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, détail du portail sud (construit par l'abbé Gilbert de Saint-Martin au XIIIe siècle). Le tympan a été martelé ; il représentait le Christ entouré des quatre Évangélistes à corps humain avec chacun une tête de l'animal symbolique qui leur était attribué. En dessous, le linteau retrace des épisodes de la vie de saint Taurin."

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior in context - plan

Scene Description: Source caption: "Planche gravée du 17ème siècle représentant l'abbaye Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, dans le livre Monasticon Gallicanum"

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view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, chœur de style gothique (XVe siècle)."

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, la nef ; chaire à prêcher de Saint-Taurin (XIXe siècle) et orgue de tribune (construit en 1842 par Callinet et Daublaine, il est restauré en 1974 par Alfred Kern)."

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view of stoup in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02531EVR
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Taurin
Church Patron Saints: St. Taurin [Taurinus]
Church Location: 7 rue Joséphine / place de Saint-Taurin, 27000 Évreux, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located on the N13, SW of Huest, N of Angerville-la-Campagne, 75 kms W of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Évreux
Historical Region: Haute-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, wall-mounted on a pillar of the nave]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: church of a Benedictine abbey founded probably 10thC; re-built 13th, 14th, 16th, 18thC; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099403]
Holy-water stoup decorated with figure/s (?); 15th century. (Chastel, 1966, p. 288). Although Chastel does not mention the name of the church, this same stoup is described and located in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) as a basin raised on a console ornamented with a large snail with a human head ["un gros colimaçon à tête humaine"]. Lasteyrie cites Chanoine Bonnefant's L'église Saint-Taurin d'Évreux, 1926, pl. 21, fog. 2, as source. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM27000709] as a stone stoup of the 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.023956, 1.141566
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 1′ 26.24″ N, 1° 8′ 29.64″ E
UTM: 31U 364138 5431783

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: Unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927