Fleury-sur-Loire / Fleury-la-Tour

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coat of arms

Scene Description: [cf. Notes on Font for details]

coat of arms - unidentified

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design element - motifs - S in a circle

Scene Description: a Gothic "flamboyant" motif

design element - motifs - S in a circle

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint Julien de Fleury-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France."

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Tirage photographique 12R11070], in Mémoire [ref.: AP12R011070] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP12R011070] [accessed 8 August 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03123FLE
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Julien de Fleury-sur-Loire
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian
Church Location: Le Bourg, 58240 Fleury-sur-Loire, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Directions to Site: Located off the D116-D173 crossroads, about 20 km SE of Nevers
Historical Region: Sud-Nivernais / Bourgogne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112892]: "12e siècle"
The font listed by Enlart (1902) under the name Fleury-la-Tour is a 15th century pedestal font. Corblet (1881-1882) simply gives the date, also the 15th century, for a font at Fleury. Noted and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de Nièvre, 1999, v. 1, p. 374). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM58000781] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM58000781] [accessed 8 August 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux (socle de cuve baptismale) [...] 1ère moitié 16e siècle [...] Armoiries". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP12R011070] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP12R011070] [accessed 8 August 2022]. The baptismal font located in Fleury-sur-Loire is dated 16th century and appears hexagonal with a basin made decorated with several mouldings; the broad base has a coat of arms charged with three fleur-de-lis and a crown with five points of the same motif on one side, and late-Gothic motifs on the others. Wooden pyramidal cover matching the shape of the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.835989, 3.319904
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 50′ 9.56″ N, 3° 19′ 11.65″ E
UTM: 31T 524395 5186988

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Notes: Pyramidal hexagon with decorated arrises; orb-and-cross finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes de la Nièvre, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902