Monetier-les-Bains No. 1 / Monestièr / Monestier de Briancon / Monestier de Briançon / Monêtier-les-Bains

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: at the upper border, all around the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - column - 2

Scene Description: two, at the front side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: just a few very broad and deep ribs all around except at the front, where the two columns are

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of a field notes taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

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view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 June 2012 by Mossot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Monêtier-les-Bains_-_Église_Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption_-03.JPG] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view - detail

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in August 1987 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LeMonêtierLesBains.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 26 June 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03007MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancien prieuré] Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: 05220 Le Monêtier-les-Bains, France

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: Located in th Guisane Valley, about 15 km NW of Briançon on the N91

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Cognate Fonts: fonts at Embrun, les Vignaux, Vallouise

Church Notes: late-15thC church, modified 17thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080584]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th-century font with a round basin. On-site notes: large hemispheric basin ornamented with a band of trefoil arches on the upper basin sides; the rest of the basin is covered in a few very broad and deeply-carved ribs, except on of the ends in which a rectangular protrusion has been carved into two vertical columns; it is an oddly-shaped massive-looking font made of a single block of marble, somewhat reminiscent of a large paquiderm. Rim-buffet wooden cover with a top of raised scroll ribs holding up a miniature tower topped with a cross finial; the panels on the sides of the cover are busily carved with all manner of floral and foliage motifs, but the front has a Baptism of Christ scene on it, as well as being framed by floral and foliage motifs all around. [NB: although the church was open, the tall 19th-century wooden font cover was not, nor did we manage to locate anyone locally who could produce a key to the lock, so the internal shape of the font well and the corresponding measurements were not available to BSI].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.9765, 6.5076

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 58′ 35.4″ N, 6° 30′ 27.36″ E

UTM: 32T 303480 4983362

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm

Height of Side Columns: 45 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 105 cm [approx.]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: locked cover; internal measurements not taken]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood,

Notes: The tall wooden rim-buffet cover is a hexagonal prism with a ribbed dome and cross finial; the front panel is ornamented with a scene of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

REFERENCES

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