Embrun No. 1 / Eburodunum

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around the upper basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: on it is the 17thC font cover, showing access to the interior

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1947 B&W photograph taken by Molinard, in Mémoire [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap01_mh0185823_p.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the centre drain now cemented over; notice the cover hardware anchoring spots around the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Scene Description: known as "porche du Réal" or "porche des Rois Mages"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2013 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_d'Embrun_-_avril_2013.JPG] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Match 2008 by Sébastien Hosy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ND_embrun.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - south porch and portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Embrun_Notre-Dame_Portal_30.JPG] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal - door

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2010 by Bachelot Pierre J-P [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_du_Réal,_La_porte1,_Embrun.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2010 by Bachelot Pierre J-P [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notre_Dame_du_Réal,_La_porte_2,_Embrun.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2013 by ServiceComDigne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathédrale_d'Embrun_01.JPG] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - north side - arcade - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of font - base

Scene Description: although it is quite likely that the winged-beast statue was not originally related to the font, it was used as its base for a period of time [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: displayed at the time with two lions on the sides, and the old basin mounted on a round pedestal base -- notice the old wooden cover; though probably not the original, it has now been replaced with a later one

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [ca. 1910?] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0020/sap01_mh029767_p.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the photograph has no exact date, but the basin appears to be mounted on the beast sculpture

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1947 B&W photograph taken 1947 by Molinard, in Mémoire [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1215/sap01_mh0185823_p.jpg] [accessed 4 June 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03005EMB

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne cathédrale] Notre-Dame du Réal [sometime known as Notre-Dame-des-Rois]

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: place Auguste Thouard, 05200 Embrun, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Embrun is 37 km E of Gap, at the extreme NE side of the Lac de Serre-Ponçon, 86 km SW of Briançon, down the N94 (near the Italian border)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Gap

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on a wide polygonal plinth

Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval

Cognate Fonts: Ville-Vallouise, les Vignaux, le Monétier-de-Briançon

Church Notes: original church perhaps as early as 4thC; present church built 1170-1225; Very interesting 12th century church of St-Étienne "le Réal" with unusual decoration [this is probably the church referred to in other sources as the "ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame d' Embrun" -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080556]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th-century font with a round basin. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) lists a Romanesque baptismal font in the ancienne cathédrale Notre-Dame at Embrun. On-site notes: the cauldron-shaped baptismal font which stands directly on the wide polygonal plinth appears indeed 14th-century as per Enlart's date. although its shape and dimentions makes it related to earlier designs; it is made of a reddish composite marble and is ornamented with a very elegant and well-executed vine all around the upper side of the basin; the metal low-dome cover topped with a cross finial is modern. The font appears to have had a varied appearance through the years. A photograph [ca. 1910?] by Enlart [cf. supra] shows the old basin mounted on a decorated round pedestal, with two winged beasts to the sides but unattached to the font itself; there is an old wooden font on it, but of a later date than the font itself, probably the 17th century. The corresponding entry in Palissy [ref.: PM05000349] describes the font as one that had a round basin made of yellow marble "de Guillestre"; it is assigned a 13th-century date in it, and informas that the basin was formerly raised on a lion that held a child or animal in its paws ["soutenue par un lion accroupi tenant un animal (ou un enfant ?) entre ses pattes"]; the entry further notes that the "lion" was in 1908 set aside and the basin mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base instead, which is the view captured in Enlart's photograph. Another photograph taken before 1947 by Molinard [cf. Mémoire [NUMP MH0185823]] shows the basin and cover, either restored or cleaned, mounted on one the winged beasts sculptures; the image is captioned "Fonts baptismaux en pierre (11e), couvercle bois (17e), ensemble fermé" in the source. [cf. also the record for Embrun No. 2, a disappeared baptistery}

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.5622, 6.495

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 33′ 43.92″ N, 6° 29′ 42″ E

UTM: 32T 301069 4937371

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: drain hole is now sealed; no lining

Rim Thickness: 13-14 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 72-73 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 98-99 cm* / 100 cm**

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 73 cm*

Basin Total Height: 73 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm* / 75 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-situ / ** Palissy [ref.: PM05000349]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, copper?

Notes: low-dome copper (?) cover; appears modern [NB: the previous cover was 17thC]

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