Montpezat-de-Quercy No. 1

Results: 21 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - arris - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage - palmette

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage or plant

Scene Description: brightly painted in blues and greens

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - gem - 8

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - gem - in a socket

Scene Description: resembling the gems on the cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of baptistery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2007 by Oxxo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Collégiale_St_Martin_Montpezat-de-Quercy.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2017]

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

view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: one of the fonts/stoups is partially visible in the foreground, left side

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 July 2013 by Mossot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montpezat-de-Quercy_-6.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - pulpit - detail

view of church interior - statue - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: beautiful piece defaced during the Revolution

view of church interior - tapestry

Scene Description: one of five tapestries on the life of St. Martin in this church; made in Flanders in the 16thC -- listed in Palissy [ref.: PM82000258]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2012 by Mossot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montpezat-de-Quercy_-_Collégiale_Saint-Martin_-_Tapisserie_-01.jpg] [accessed 26 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [82W00367] taken by Resseguié, in Mémoire [ref.: AP82W00367] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2016/sap83_82w00367_p.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2017]

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

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: NB: the Palissy entry and record of the undated photograph does not explain why the font is as it appears -- war time damage?

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [82W00366] taken by Yan (J. Dieuzaide), in Mémoire [ref.: AP82W00366] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2016/sap83_82w00366_p.jpg] [accessed 27 May 2017]

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

view of font base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of font cover - bracket

Scene Description: secured to the wall by a ring at top at left, the arm other end is built into the frame of the wooden cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of font cover - bracket - detail

Scene Description: the attachment to the cover frame

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02883MON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise collégiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 82270 Montpezat-de-Quercy

Country Name: France

Location: Tarn-et-Garonne, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D20-D38 crossroads, 27 km S of Cahors, 30 km NNE of Montauban

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Montauban

Historical Region: le Quercy caussadais, Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a wooden enclosure as baptistery, at the W end, N side

Date: ca. 1600? [Enlart]

Century and Period: 16th - 18th century [basin only] [composite font]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font

Church Notes: present church built 1337, consecrated 1343; listed in [ref.: PA00095838]: "Eglise du 13e siècle" -- There is a beautiful marble Madonna-and Child, probably 12th-century, in this church; both figures were apparently decapitated at the time of the Revolution. The ornate pulpit is probably from the same period as the font, i.e., 16th century.

Font Notes: Click to view

***NB: SLIDE FOLDER WITH MONTPEZAT... No. 1 APPEARS TO BE MISSING -- IMAGES FOR THIS FONT ARE LOW-RES UNTIL FOLDER FOUND*** Listed by Enlart (1902) among a few surviving wooden fonts and dated to ca. 1600. Listed in Bond (1908: 77), probably after Enlart. Corblet (1881-1882), who dates it to the 14th century, describes it as a wooden font whose pyramidal lid, which moves on a pivot, is adorned with "incrustations de porphyre égyptien, de vert antique et d'autres marbres précieux." Mathieu Méras, in his entry in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- , III B 107-109), mentions a 17th-century font in the baptistery chapel of the Ancienne Collégiale-Saint-Martin at Montpezat-de-Quercy but there is no indication in the entry as to the material, shape or ornamentation. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM82000171] with date in the 18th century. On-site notes: the octagonal basin and lid of this font are indeed made of wood; the upper side of the basin has a protruding rim with large gem-like stones spaced between rosettes; below, on the underbowl, each side has a large palmette framed in foliage. The dome lid is also octagonal but dome and pointed upwards, with a cross finial and medallion-like motifs. Bowl and cover stand on a square stone pedestal. The cover opens sideways swinging on a wooden bracket fixed to the wall behind. Although Faurou and Moureau (1996: 19) write that it is the basin which moves: "la cuve coulisse grâce à une potence placée derrière elle", the pivot is actually affixed to the lid, not the basin [cf. Images section for details]. [NB: all the documentation and photography work on this font had to be done from the outside of the enclosure; the current [June 2001] abbé refused BSI direct access to the font; hence the incomplete data]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.2366, 1.47931

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 14′ 11.76″ N, 1° 28′ 45.52″ E

UTM: 31T 378565 4899276

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Notes on Measurements: [BSI not allowed direct access to the font]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-18th century?

Material: wood (with semi-precious stones)

Apparatus: swing bracket

Notes: [cf. FontNotes for details]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Faurau, Fernand, Collégiale Saint-Martin de Montpezat-de-Querzy, La, Montpezat-de-Quercy: Association Diocesane de Montauban - Paroisse de Montpezat-de-Quercy, 1996