Gaillac No. 1 / Galhac

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human figure - head

Scene Description: on the missing medieval font [cf. FontNotes]

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."

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

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 8 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03001GAI

Church/Chapel: Ancienne abbatiale Saint-Michel

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Place Saint-Michel, 81600 Gaillac, France -- Tel.: +33 5 63 57 14 65

Country Name: France

Location: Tarn, Occitanie

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

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: former abbey founded late-10thC; present bulding chiefly 16th-17thC listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00132878]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.897281, 1.896117

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 53′ 50.21″ N, 1° 53′ 46.02″ E

UTM: 31T 411598 4861511

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-

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