Vallouise No. 1

Results: 30 records

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B01: symbol - cross - pattée

Scene Description: seen here In the left arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B02: symbol - Moon - full-moon - human face

Scene Description: seen here in the centre arch -- this round face could be the one Malle identifies as the Moon's symbol

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B03: blank

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch -- the motif has been defaced/erased

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B04: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: seen here in the second arch from the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B05: symbol - sun - multi-rayed

Scene Description: seen here in the second arch from the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B06: Christ - monogram - IHS

Scene Description: seen here to the left of the Crescent Moon symbol

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B07: symbol - Moon - crescent - human face

Scene Description: Man-in-the-moon to the right of the crescent

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B08: symbol - star - 6-point

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B09: symbol - map

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch -- similar to the ones found on the exterior of the church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B10: symbol - cross - Tau cross

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B11: symbol - map

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch -- similar to the ones found on the exterior of the church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

B12: symbol - star - 6-point

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the basin sides, with motifs under the arches

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

information

Scene Description: the posted information sheet shows details of the stolen font cover parts

information

Scene Description: the posted sheet tells of the theft of the font cover panels in July 1998 [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: the drain hole is 9 cm wide

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Scene Description: shield charged with a map?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: photographed in June 2001, about three years after the theft of the font cover panels [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale"

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [Numéro de versement J/83/05. Numéro du tirage 05W01134. Phototype(s) en relation 41092 [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP05W01134] [accessed 12 May 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1975] B&W photograph by Albert Chauvel [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP46L00475] [accessed 12 May 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font cover

Scene Description: photographed in June 2001, about three years after the theft of the panels [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Deux portes de baptistère en bois du 16e siècle (h = 120 ; la = 100) ont été volées dans la nuit du 7 au 8 juillet 1998. Les portes sont sculptées de deux écussons illisibles et un ruban avec inscription : MVXVIII F R D F."

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [Numéro de versement J/83/05. Numéro du tirage 05W01184 [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP05W01184] [accessed 12 May 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02768VAL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Étienne

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Place de l'église, 05290 Vallouise-Pelvoux, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Located off the D504, on the W bank of Le Gyr river, about 20 km SW of Briançon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the W side

Date: 1518?

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Late Medieval

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Embrun, Le Monétier-de-Briançon, Les Vignaux

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080633]: "15e siècle"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

An illustration in Malle (1994) shows a tub-like font with a tall wooden cover of a later period (the wooden cover is described as High Gothic by Enlart, 1902); a Greek pattée cross, a Moon symbol, a human face, a six-point star and Christ's anagram can be seen in the short arches under the rim; Malle mentions also some coats of arms. The lower part of the basin sides is not ornamented and tapers in to join the stumpy octagonal base with a tore. A wider plinth supports the whole font. The font cover appears octagonal , of the "cupboard" type in the lower part and a tall pyramidal upper part. Malle reports the date 1518 and the initials F.R.D.F. on it and reads them as "François, Roi de France" (Malle, 1994). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM05000331]: "Cuve monolithe à décor sculpté [...] Armoiries de France et de Dauphiné (sur la serrure) ; MVXVIII F R D F (1518 François roi de France ?), même emplacement [...] arcatures, soleil, fleurs de lys, écu au dauphin, étoiles, I H S, croissants, dauphins, tau, croix [...] couvercle en bois (formé de deux parties, l'une octogone, l'autre hexagone et terminée en pointe), décoré de panneaux sculptés et ajourés et portant une serrure [...] Deux portes de baptistère en bois du 16e siècle (h = 120 ; la = 100) ont été volées dans la nuit du 7 au 8 juillet 1998. Les portes sont sculptées de deux écussons illisibles et un ruban avec inscription : MVXVIII F R D F." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP05W01134]. A news regarding the cover doors appeared in the Sepptember 2024 edition of the Vallouise Magazine [http://www.vallouise.info/archives/nouvelles-01.htm#Vallouise_:_les_fonts_baptismaux] [accessed 12 May 2024]: "Vallouise : les fonts baptismaux de l'église munis de nouveaux panneaux (Juillet 2004). Les panneaux d'origine du XVIe siècle volés en juillet 1998 avaient été remplacés provisoirement par des plaques de contre-plaqué - voir l'album de photos sur l'église de Vallouise. Une copie conforme des panneaux volés a été réalisée par un maître artisan et récemment mises en place. Elle est en tous points identique reprenant même les défauts des originaux. Les fonts baptismaux retrouvent ainsi leur éclat." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP05W01134] On-site notes: we were shocked to find the doors of the beautiful font cover missing at the time of our visit [June 26, 2001]; we later found out that the church was broken into on the night of July 7-8 1998 and the doors of the font cover torn from the frame and stolen [obviously a "by order" theft]. An image of the missing doors is available at the Inventaire Général des Monuments et des Richesses Artistiques de la France [we will try to obtain a copy for the Index; in the meantime, we have provided an image as reproduced on a drawing inside the church]. One of the motifs under the arcade is a map of the region; another has the monogram of Jesus. Some of these motifs are reproduced also on an external freeze of the church. Although the font design and its measurements would suggest an early date (13th or 14th century), some of the motifs are represented in heraldic format, which would prompt us for a later dating (15th or 16th century). Since the lid itself is dated by an inscription to 1518, would it be posible that font and cover are contemporary?

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.8463, 6.4877

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 50′ 46.68″ N, 6° 29′ 15.72″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (composite red marble)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the drain hole is 9 cm wide

Rim Thickness: 20 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 110-112 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 150-152 cm*

Basin Depth: 50 cm*

Basin Total Height: 93 cm*

Height of Base: 17 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm* / 100 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 130 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI / ** Palissy

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1518 / High Gothic

Material: wood, oak

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2024-05-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2024-05-12 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994