Hyeres / Hyères

INFORMATION

FontID: 03025HYE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Saint-Paul d'Hyères
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: 24 Rue Fénelon, 83400 Hyères, France -- Tel.: +33 4 94 00 82 44
Country Name: France
Location: Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: Hyères is located off the A50, about 20 km E of Toulon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon
Church Notes: present church of St-Paul was built in the 16thC but includes remnants of an earlier Romanesque church (France, 1985) -- listed in Mérimée [ref.:PA00081641]: "12e siècle ; 15e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 18e siècle"
Font Notes:
Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of fonts difficult to date. A 19th-century font in this church is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM83001958]. A pair of slender mid-17thC white marble holy-water stoups are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM83002595].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.1216, 6.127
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 7′ 17.76″ N, 6° 7′ 37.2″ E
UTM: 32T 266282 4778326

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: Unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985