Monetier-les-Bains No. 2 / Monestièr / Monestier de Briancon / Monestier de Briançon / Monêtier-les-Bains

Results: 10 records

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: seen here on the corners

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

design element - motifs - plant

Scene Description: in the centre, with two large scrolls linked to fleurons at the sides

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

design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: parallel, at the neck of the underbowl and the stem of the base

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

human figure - head - negroid features - wearing turban

Scene Description: seen here in the centre; the head-piece resembles a turban with a knot on the right side

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

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

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

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

symbol - cross - Tau cross

Scene Description: seen here in the centre

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

symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: on one of the sides

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

view of stoup

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

view of stoup - upper view

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 03017MON

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, at the W end, N side of the door

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Paslissy [ref.: PM05001032]: " bénitier [...] marbre veiné (noir, monolithe) [...] Réutilisation de la partie supérieure d'une colonne avec son chapiteau creusé pour servir de bénitier. Plan circulaire à la base, carré au sommet. Un motif sur chaque face de la corbeille : tête, deux fleurs, motif à trois branches pattées ; feuille aux angles [...] 15e siècle". On-site notes: a square mounted holy-water stoup in black marble looking very much like a re-cycled capital; the upper vertical sides are totally plain but the chamfer or underbowl has a floral motif at each angle framed in a round arch, plus a different motif on each of the four sides: 1)Tau cross; 2)human head which appears to wear a turban; 3)trefoil motif; 4)plant; the neck between the volume of the capital and the stem of the base has two roll mouldings.

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 (black)

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 5-6 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 31 cm

Basin Depth: 14 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 42 x 42 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site