Troyes No. 3

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animal - fish - dolphin - foliated tail

Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - column - 4

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design element - architectural - niche - 4

Scene Description: originally housing the Evangelists but the figures lost during the Revolution [cf. FontNotes]

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Scene Description: much damaged/defaced

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Nicolas de Troyes [...] côté nord"

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view of font - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale"

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale"

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "vue d el'Église Saint-Nicolas de Troyes. Baptistère"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03499TRO
Church/Chapel: Église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Bd Victor Hugo, 10000 Troyes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 25 76 89 16
Country Name: France
Location: Aube, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located 150 km SE of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Troyes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 16th century (?), Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church Notes: 1189 chapel-of-ease; destroyed by fire 1524; present church 16thC re-building -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078257]
Listed by Corblet (1881-1882) simply as Renaissance font. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM10002472]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire [...] Cuve octogonale. Pied de section carrée creusé de niches encadrées par des pilastres [...] 16e siècle [...] H = 106 ; la = 135 ; d = 90 [...] Partie bûchée [...] Armoiries en partie effacées [...] Armoiries (non identifiées) ; armoiries (incomplètes) [...] Armoiries à dextre disparues. Senestre : au 1 à la croix dentelée ; au 2 à un chevron [...] Niches vidées de leurs statuettes (les évangélistes) à la Révolution." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA010031006126, APMH00009875, AP10W01546, AP10W01540, AP10W01547, AP10W01548, AP10W04464]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.293987, 4.069421
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 17′ 38.35″ N, 4° 4′ 9.92″ E
UTM: 31U 579319 5349529

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 135 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged about its middle; side metal lock to basin side; appears modern

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, 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: 2025-04-05 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.