Grenade-sur-Garonne

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angel - showing wings - open arms - in a circle

Scene Description: one of the repeated motifs -- Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes these motifs as: rosettes, fleur de lis, roundels, etc., all distributed over three registers of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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animal - bird - dove - in a circle

Scene Description: one of the repeated motifs -- Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes these motifs as: rosettes, fleur de lis, roundels, etc., all distributed over three registers of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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animal - mammal - lion - rampant - in a circle

Scene Description: one of the repeated motifs -- Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes these motifs as: rosettes, fleur de lis, roundels, etc., all distributed over three registers of the basin sides [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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view of basin - elevation

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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view of basin - plan

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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view of basin - section - detail

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Image Source: detail of an engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2011 by Mattana [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grenade_Église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption_06.JPG] [accessed 29 August 2013]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Didier Descouens [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption_(Grenade).jpg] [accessed 29 August 2013]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Didier Descouens [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption_(Grenade)_interieur.jpg] [accessed 29 August 2013]

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

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Image Source: engraving in Esquié (1880: after p. 448)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02893GRE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Grenade
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Grenade is about 30 kms north of Toulouse on the D902 (dir. Montauban/Grisolles)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Toulouse
Font Location in Church: disappeared
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Cognate Fonts: Verdun-sur-Garonne; two others, at Blagnac and Lasserre, also disappeared
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to M. Yves Despax, of Grenade, for the information on this font and his hospitality
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094350]: "L'église fut commencée vers1290, et le pignon oriental agrandi à la fin du 15e siècle."
Esquié (1880) describes the font in detail and accounts for its disappearance between the time of his visit, "vers le milieu de l'année 1850" [=about mid-1850] and the publication of his article in 1880; his illustrations show that there are no "fantastic animals" on it but, rather three motifs that repeat all over the font: a rampant lion facing right, an angel with open arms facing front and a dove facing left, each inside a button-like circle. Esquié (ibid.) states that the shape and ornamentation on this font suggest a late 12th- or early 13th-century date, and Esquié states his preference for the latter. Enlart (1902) lists it among a group of 13th-century lead fonts and writes "vendus" i.e., sold (?) as the only comment. A few years earlier, in 1899, M. le chanoine Pottier had published an article entitled "Les cuves baptismales en plomb au diocèse de Montauban" in the Bull. Soc. archéol., Tarn-et-Garonne, about this font and another one of the same type in Verdun-sur-Garonne [quoted in Lasteyrie (1926-1927, v. 2, p. 513 and footnote 3)]. The font is described by Lasteyrie as being narrower than most others of the type and having their sides ornamented with rosettes, fleur de lis, roundels, groups of more or less fantastic animals, all of it distributed over three registers separated by mouldings. On-site notes: we were able to confirm on site that this oval font had indeed been sold ca. 1860 as lead and that it was much as Lasteyrie had described [cf. supra]. A very unremarkable orange/pink marble object of the 19th-20th century serves now [June 2001] as baptismal font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.771153, 1.294031
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 46′ 16.15″ N, 1° 17′ 38.51″ E
UTM: 31T 362700 4847870

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: oval (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Rim Thickness: 3 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 67 x 108 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 73 x 114 cm [calculated]
Basin Depth: 48 cm
Basin Total Height: 51 cm [calculated
Font Height (less Plinth): 51 cm [calculated)
Notes on Measurements: Esquié (1880: 2)

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; r["References"]
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