Seyne / Seyne-les-Alpes
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP04W01477] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP04W01477] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Seyne - Église Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOST, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2011 by MOSSOST [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seyne_-_Église_Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth_-936.jpg] [accessd 8 March 2025]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale), vue générale"
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP04W01477] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Seyne, église Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sébastien Thébault, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 September 2014 by Sébastien Thébault [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seyne,_église_Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth,_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03012SEY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 43 Grande Rue, 04140 Seyne, France
Country Name: France
Location: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: Located off the D900, about 40 km SE of Gap
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century[Enlart]
Church Notes: earlier church dedicated to St. Peter replaced by the present one probably in the 13thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080486]
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 16th century font. The Phaidon guide to Provence..., 1986, p. 212, describes it as large, being 13 ft. in circumference. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) describes it as an enormous monolithic stone basin with a 4 m. circumference. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM04002841]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale) [...] Cuve d'une circonférence de 4 mètres (?) [...] 16e siècle"; the entry includes a reference: "Allibert, Histoire de Seyne, p.66". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP04W01477].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.350806, 6.354418
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 21′ 2.9″ N, 6° 21′ 15.91″ E
UTM: 32T 289145 4914242
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 127.32 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * based on a circumference of 4 m.
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
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-08 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Phaidon, Provence and the Côte d'Azur: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986