Chartres No. 1
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: complete with capitals and bases; at 90-degree angles around the outer basin
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Image Source: digital image of a [before or circa] 1910 B&W photograph by G. Massiot & cie in the CurateND Architectural Lantern Slides of France [https://curate.nd.edu/show/nv935141g1q] [accessed 19 Jabuary 2020]
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information
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Image Source: digital image of a detail in L. J. Guenebault's Crypte de la Cathédrale de Chartres, in the Revue Archéologique, 13e Année, No. 2 (OCTOBRE 1856 A MARS 1857), pp. 621-626 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41746410?seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2010 by Olvr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_de_Chartres.jpg] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julien Chatelain, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2018 by Julien Chatelain [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_(43836923554).jpg] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2008 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chartres,_Cathédrale_Notre-Dame-F_274.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 125)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 15)
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chartres Cathedral: An eleventh-century font in one of three surviving crypt chapels"
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Image Source: digital image of a [before or circa] 1910 B&W photograph by G. Massiot & cie in the CurateND Architectural Lantern Slides of France [https://curate.nd.edu/show/nv935141g1q] [accessed 19 Jabuary 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "This baptismal font dates from the 12th century and is still used for christenings."
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Image Source: digital photograph in France-Travel-Info [www.france-travel-info.com/gothic-cathedral-chartres-crypt/] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: in the crypt, south gallery chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cathédrale de Chartres, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph in [www.cathedrale-chartres.fr/crypte/vue_16.php] [accessed 19 December 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02936CHA
Church/Chapel: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 16 Cloître Notre Dame, 28000 Chartres, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D7154, in the historic centre of town, 80 km WSW of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Chartres
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S gallery chapel
Date: ca. 1150?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Ver, Rousseloy, Nogent-l'Artaud, also in France.
Church Notes: built chiefly 1194 to 1220
Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy font here, without further details. Noted and illustrated in Wolfred Nelson Cote's The archæology of baptism (1876). The font at the cathedral of Chartres is described by Enlart (1902) as a 12th century footless tub-shaped object ornamented with colonnettes. Malle (1984) and Pudelko (1932) show some detail of the ornamentation on the capitals of the side colonnettes and a narrow band at the rim; the basin itself is tub-shaped. Lasteyrie (1926-1927) and (1929) describes it as the most elegant imitation of a Tournai font, so well-proportioned that one can hardly imagine a more beautiful model of a font, and dates it to the second half of the 12th century. Illustrated in Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 125). Illustrated in Ronse (1929: fig. 15). Noted in L. J. Guenebault's Crypte de la Cathédrale de Chartres, in the Revue Archéologique, 13e Année, No. 2 (OCTOBRE 1856 A MARS 1857), pp. 621-626 [cf. ImagesArea for the text]. The entry for this font in the University of Notre Dame CurateND site [https://curate.nd.edu/show/nv935141g1q] [accessed 20 December 2020] notes and illustrates "An eleventh-century font in one of three surviving crypt chapels". The font is actually in the south gallery, as noted and illustrated in the www.cathedrale-chartres.fr/crypte/vue_16.php [accessed 19 December 2020]: "Dans la galerie sud, un espace liturgique où on aperçoit à gauche, à hauteur de la troisième travée, les fonts baptismaux, datant de 1150 environ." A document in the Archives Départementales d'Eure-et-Loir [FR AD 28 / L 440] [www.archives28.fr/a/158/amenagements-faits-a-l-interieur-de-la-cathedrale/] [accessed 19 December 2020] notes: "Pour réaliser en 1791 les travaux d'aménagement prévus à l'intérieur de la cathédrale, l'architecte Laurent Morin utilisa les autels et le mobilier des églises qui constituaient jusqu'alors les différentes paroisses de Chartres. C'est ainsi que des tableaux, des sculptures, des bénitiers, des fonts baptismaux, des confessionnaux mais aussi des boiseries, des éléments de dallage ou encore des colonnes furent transférés pour former de nouvelles chapelles dans la cathédrale."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
48.447222,
1.487778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
48° 26′ 50″ N,
1° 29′ 16″ E
UTM: 31U 388175 5367114
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
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
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929
Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994
Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932
Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929
Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; r["References"]
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868