Gaillac No. 1 / Galhac
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'abbaye bénédictine de Gaillac a été fondée en 972 dans le département du Tarn. L'église abbatiale est aujourd'hui l'église Saint-Michel."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jimidelyon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2013 by Jimidelyon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaillac_-_Abbatiale_St_Michel_au_bord_du_Tarn.jpg] [accessed 24 October 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03001GAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2001-06-08
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Ancienne abbatiale Saint-Michel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Notes: former abbey founded late-10thC; present bulding chiefly 16th-17thC listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00132878]
Church Address: Place Saint-Michel, 81600 Gaillac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 63 57 14 65
Site Location: Tarn, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Gaillac lies off the D87-D964 cross-roads, off the A68 (dir. Toulouse), 22 km W of Albi, NE of Toulouse
Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart as a late 12th-century ("fin du XIIe siècle") font with a round bowl supported with colonnettes and ornamented with four heads (Enlart, 1902). On-site notes: no such object found; the present [2001] font, which stands in front of a large painting of the Crucifixion is a late, 19th-century, pink marble one with large ribbed pattern on the basin and mounted on a round pedestal base. No one in the parish could provide any information on the Romanesque font. [NB: there is, hoever, a 12th-century Romanesque stoup in this church, the same documented by Lasteyrie in 1929 -- cf. Index entry for Gaillac No. 2]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 411598 4861511
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.897281, 1.896117
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 53′ 50.21″ N, 1° 53′ 46.02″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, III A 59-60
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 4