Brive-la-Gaillarde No. 1 / Briva Curretia / Brives-la-Gaillarde

Image copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2006
Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2006)
Results: 13 records
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion
Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
design element - motifs - rope moulding
design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal
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Scene Description: or fluting [cf. Font notes] -- Image courtesy & copyright © Malcolm Watkins, 2006
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Malcolm J. Watkins, 2006
Image Source: photograph taken in 2006 by Malcolm J. Watkins [www.heritagematters.co.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 July 2006)
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
INFORMATION
FontID: 02920BRI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin (ancienne collégiale)
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: place Charles de Gaulle, 19100 Brives-la-Gaillarde, France
Country Name: France
Location: Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located 25 km SW of Tulle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tulle
Historical Region: Limousin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Verneuil (Eure)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Malcolm Watkins for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: original 5thC church mentioned in Gregory of Tours; re-built 6thC; re-built 9thC; collegiate church 11thC; became parochial 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099691]: "Haut Moyen Age ; 11e siècle ; 18e siècle" -- A quatrefoil-shaped stoup listed in the Index [cf. Brive / Brives... No. 2] for this church.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a circular footless font of the 12th century; he describes the ornamentation on this font as having spiral flutings or striations ("strigiles ou cannelures") imitating those on ancient sarcophagi. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM19000071]: "Cuve baptismale [en grès] du 12e siècle ; complétée dans la 2e moitié du 19e siècle par un couvercle surmonté d'une armoire aux huiles saintes en cuivre et bronze [...] Les deux ceintures de la cuve sont ornées de moulures ; entre les ceintures un large bandeau est sculpté de cannelures torses ; sur le bandeau sont sculptés les trois symboles des Evangélistes." The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966) describes it as very large Romanesque basin ornamented with fluting or ribbed pattern and the symbols of three Evangelists: Matthew, John and Mark. Baptismal font of the 12th century reported in Eglises de Corrèze [http://eglises.de.correze.online.fr/] [accessed 8 February 2017]. The large basin is decorated with an irregular thick moulding at the upper end (it is mostly rounded but the front is practically flat), followed down by a thin rope moulding all around; below is a wide band of diagonal ribbed pattern or fluting also quite irregular (in some areas the fluting is almost vertical, while in others is almost at 45 degrees) on which appear three (?) Evangelists symbols; next down is a narrow band of small scallop pattern; then comes a double torus-scotia-torus combination, the mouldings badly damaged in some areas; the basin rests directly on the ground. The metal font cover has a cylindrical 'tourelle' with a conical roof (the body itself decorated with trefoil windows, the roof 'en poivrière' with a scalloped pattern and a figural finial holding a cross, probably Christ or John the Baptist; the whole stands on a flat surface -the cover proper- which has hinged segments that open to provide access to the basin interior.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
45.15889,
1.53306
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
45° 9′ 32″ N,
1° 31′ 59.02″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 170 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Noted in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 6 April 2016]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material:
metal,
bronze
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902