Gravieres / Gravières
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve) La cuve date du XVIe siècle"
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve) La cuve date du XVIe siècle et l'encadrement date du XVIIIe siècle."
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve) La cuve date du XVIe siècle et l'encadrement date du XVIIIe siècle."
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Image Source: digital photograph 2012 by Frédéric Sauvage [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA007_20200701166] [accessed 5 April 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03495GRA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Victor à Gravières
Church Patron Saints: St. Victor
Church Location: 83 Pl. de l'Eglise, 07140 Gravières, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located of the D113, 2-3 km NW of Les Vans,
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Viviers
Historical Region: Rhône-Alpes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a niche
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Late Gothic
Church Notes: first documented 1096; modified 16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116710]: "12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Corblet (1881-1882) describes this as a 10th century font "creussé en coupe, imitant un bassin de cuivre qui serait contenue dans une cage de fer". Palissy lists a 16th-century font in this church [ref.: PM07001053]: "La cuve date du XVIe siècle et l'encadrement date du XVIIIe siècle." The entry for this church in Patrimoine d'Ardeche [https://www.patrimoine-ardeche.com/visites/gravieres.htm] [accessed 4 April 2025] provides a rather confusing note: "Aux fonts baptismaux se voient les vestiges d'un ancien retable et une cuve en pierre (carolingienne ?)" [NB: the claim to Carolingian antiquity in the two above sources is rightly invalidated by the dating in Palissy]. The 16th-century font is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA007_20200701167, OA007_20200701166, OA007_20200701168, OA007_20200701169, OA007_20200701170].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
44.4217,
4.09207
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
44° 25′ 18.12″ N,
4° 5′ 31.45″ E
UTM: 31T 586933 4919292
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Basin Depth: 45 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Corblet (1881-1882)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19thC?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type; octagonal panelled body with pyramidal top
REFERENCES
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-05 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-05 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-05 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-05 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, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-05 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: 2025-04-04 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
