Saintes No. 3

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: notice the drains of the original cloister fountain on the sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Michel Claveyrolas

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information

Image Source: text by Michel Claveyrolas

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Image Source: field notes taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of basin - interior

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view of basin - rim - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Scene Description: inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - crypt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt

Scene Description: the sarcophagus of St. Eutrope

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt

Scene Description: the sarcophagus of St. Eutrope

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - crypt

Scene Description: showing two stone holy-water stoups: a free-standing one on the right; a semi-attached one on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of church interior - crypt - plan

Image Source: digital image created 9 April 2008 by Johen Jahnke [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Plan_de_la_crypte_de_la_Basilique_Saint-Eutrope_de_Saintes.jpg]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the section in red shows the nave demolished in the 1830s and never rebuilt; the church now ends at the west end of the transept

Image Source: digital image created 9 April 2008 by Johen Jahnke [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Plan_de_la_Basilique_Saint-Eutrope_de_Saintes.jpg]

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view of church interior - well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of font

Image Source: engraving in De Caumont (1854)

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Scene Description: the two early drawings of the font: the top, ca. 1854; the bottom, ca. 1878 [cf. FontNotes for the discrepancy relating the base]

Image Source: rendering of the engraving from De Caumont (1854) in Bourricaud (1880); with drawing by L. Giraudeau with engraving by Ch. Heitz in Bourricaud (1880)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of font in context

Scene Description: the grate on the left protects access to the old well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2011 by Baptisteria Sacra Index

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2013 by Michel Claveyrolas

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: in the crypt

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2015 by Mikel Unanue

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03504SAI

Church/Chapel: Eglise priorale Saint-Eutrope [aka Basilique Saint-Eutrope -- since 1886]

Church Patron Saints: St. Eutrope (d. 475; bishop of Orange?)

Country Name: France

Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located on the left bank of the Charente river, off the A10, 33 km NE of Royan, 60 km E of La Rochelle, 100 km N of Bordeaux

Historical Region: Saintonge

Font Location in Church: In the crypt, by the side of the old well

Century and Period: 11th century [altered], Romanesque [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and to Michel Cl;aveyrolas for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: The original church dates from 1081; the nave of the upper church was pull down in 1803, so the transept is now at the west end. Although much of the original curch estructure has been changed, there are wonderful capitals remaining from the Romanesque period and the crypt, the "oldest religious bulding in Saintonge" is an "exact replica of the choir above" and houses a 4th?/6th? century sarcophagus with the relics of St-Eutrope. (a/p France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide (1985, p. 667). The crypte is really a funerary basilica dating originally to the 11th-century fundation of the church.

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In the crypt of the church of St-Eutrope there is, next to the old well from which water is said to have been drawn for the early baptisms, a large cylindrical stone vessel said to be a font of the 11th century. Noted and illustrated in De Caumont (1854) as a baptismal font in the crypt of St-Eutrope, where it appears mounted on a single moulded pedestal base. Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy font here, without further details. Described in some detail and illustrated in Bourricaud (1880); this author notes that the font had already been featured in two earlier sources in 1844 (Séances générales tenues en 1844, Société française pour la conservation des monuments historiques) and in De Caumont [cf. supra]. Bourricaud (ibid.) provides two illustrations that show the font differently displayed: one reprints De Caumont's engraving of 1854, in which the font is displayed as having a single foot; the second, which, Bourricaud informs, was executed by L. Giraudeau -and it is indeed so signed- shows the font raised on a double base [cf. infra] [NB: we do not know for certain whether the font was monopode in 1854, although it does not apear to have been altered from its original footing; was it De Caumont's error?]. Noted in Corblet (1881-1882). Lewis (1887) notes: "A large font in the south transept [of the crypt or lower church] shows by its size to how late a period the practice of baptizing by immersion lasted." Lasteyrie (1929) describes the base as three short supports ornamented with mouldings, and warns about the misleading view in De Caumont's illustration (in his Abécédaire, p. 311) which makes the base appear as monopode. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) describes it simply as a Romanesque baptismal font "en forme de vasque circulaire". Crozet (1971) mentions the size of this font and the multiple perforations around it and wonders if this would not be the "lavabo" fountain from the old Clunic cloister which used to exist by the south of the church. The Palissy database has an entry [référence PM17000466] for a 11th-century stone baptismal font at St-Eutrope, that is presumably meant for this object. On-site notes: it appears that Crozet's observation on the possibility of this object not being originally a font, but a cloister fountain is well founded; not only are there multiple lateral drainage holes at the lower side of the basin, but the surface of the bottom of the inner well is also convex, a design that suits the function of the fountain, but never found in a baptismal font. Local lore has that this object was often used as a 'lavabo' by the pilgrims passing through Saintes on their way to Santiago de Compostela, which would have never been allowed should the object had been a baptismal font. [NB: we have no evidence of this object ever having been used as baptismal font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.7434, -0.6414

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 44′ 36.24″N, 0° 38′ 29.04″W

UTM: 30T 684091 5068594

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Rim Thickness: 11.4-12.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 113 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 142 cm

Basin Depth: 24-25.5 cm

Basin Total Height: 38 cm

Height of Base: 52 cm

Height of Side Columns: 13 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: there is no evidence of cover hardware on the stone rim, though there are large indentations in some areas of the rim.

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Bourricaud, A. [Antoine], "Fonts baptismaux de St-Eutrope de Saintes", 2e série, tome 1 (tome V de la collection), Recueil de la Commission des arts & monuments historiques de la Charente-Inférieure et Société d'archéologie de Saintes, 1880-1881, pp. 204-208; r["References"]

Caumont, Arcisse de, Abécédaire ou rudiment d'archéologie; architecture religieuse (5e éd.), Caen: F. Le Blanc-Hardel, 1867

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882

Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929

Lewis, Bunnell, "The antiquities of Saintes", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 164-184; 215-243; r["References"]

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; r["References"]

Torrens Alzu, Miguel A., "La basílica de S. Eutropio de Saintes: anacronismos hagiográficos, vicisitudes arquitectónicas e incertidumbres sacramentales", 16 (Junio 2013), Románico: revista de arte de Amigos del Románico, 2013, pp. 48-55; r["References"]