Nantua / Nantoaci / Nantuacenses / Nantuadenses / Nantuadis / Natuadis
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue extérieure, sur le parvis de l’église abbatiale Saint-Michel de Nantua".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mfrays, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2011 by Mfrays [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Abbatiale_Saint-Michel_de_Nantua.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2014 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_de_l'Ain_2014_-_Stage_4_125.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 August 2014 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_de_l'Ain_2014_-_Stage_4_125.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 August 2014 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_de_l'Ain_2014_-_Stage_4_125.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2014 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_de_l'Ain_2014_-_Stage_4_118.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 August 2014 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tour_de_l'Ain_2014_-_Stage_4_126.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mfrays, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2011 by Mfrays [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orgue_Nantua.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard by Librairie Clement of Nantua, posted for sale in Delcampe.com [https://www.delcampe.fr/fr/collections/cartes-postales/france/nantua/nantua-leglise-fonds-baptismaux-42446583.html] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Modern holy-water stoup described and illustrated in 'Sculpture en albâtre (1855)', in Patrimoine et Histoire de Champfromier, par Ghislain Lancel: "Ce bénitier se trouve en fait actuellement dans la chapelle Sainte-Anne de l'abbatiale de Nantua, à gauche en entrant (h=112 ; l=98, bénitier finement sculpté composé de deux vasques, décors de feuillages, arcatures néogothiques, manque 5 coquilles à la vasque supérieure). Il est mentionné dans le pré-inventaire "Bénitier d'albâtre, œuvre de Rougement, directeur de l'école industrielle de Nantua, qui le présenta en 1854 au Comice Agricole et en 1855 à l'Exposition des Beaux-Arts de Paris" [Pré-inv., canton de Nantua, p. 50]."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Service du patrimoine immobilier et mobilier, Conseil Général de l'Ain, 2014
Image Source: digital image in Sculpture en albâtre (1855), by Ghislain Lancel [http://champ.delette.free.fr/arts_et_lettres/_sculpture.php] [accessed 16 December 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03049NAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Michel
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: 01130 Nantua, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the D1084, 32 km ESE of Bourg-en-Bresse (NE of Lyon, W of Geneva)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Belley-Ars
Historical Region: Rhône-Alpes
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Church Notes: original abbey perhaps 8th-9thC; early-12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116440]
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1902) lists a font here in a group of octagonal fonts in the Gothic style, The present font appears to be oval and of a much later date [NB: we have no information on the font of the original (?) abbey church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.1519, 5.6078
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 9′ 6.84″ N, 5° 36′ 28.08″ E
UTM: 31T 701372 5114231
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902