Chirens
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 98)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: the modern parish church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Paul Corlin, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2019 by Jean-Paul Corlin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_de_Chirens.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: the priory church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud-Victor Monteux, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 Match 2012 by Arnaud-Victor Monteux [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prieuré.Chirens.Isère.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the priory church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Poudou99, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by Poudou99 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chirens_-_IMG_3737.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03526CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: With an appended secondary basin, like the font at Youlgreave (but not the same shape)
Church / Chapel Name: Église Prieuré Notre-Dame-du-Gayet de Chirens
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church of the priory founded by the Benedictines of Saint-Pierre de Vienne in the 11thC; restored 20thC -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00117136]
Church Address: 161 rue Notre Dame du Gayet, 38850 Chirens, France -- Tel.: +33 4 76 35 20 02
Site Location: Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D-1075 [aka route de Chartreuse], in the hamlet or quartier of Gayet, NNW of Voiron, SE of Lyon
Historical Region: Pays Voironnais
Font Notes:
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Listed by Corblet (1881-1882: v. 2, p. 129) simply as an ancient font, without further annotation. Noted in Cox (1875-1877) in the contaxt of the font at Youlgreave. Bond (1908) describes it as a font with two basins, in which "both the large and the small bowl were hollowed out of the same block"; he later describes the small basin as looking "like a Kangaroo's pouch" to the main basin (ibid., p. 66). [NB: the obvious English example that comes to mind is the font at Youlgreave, although the secondary basin of the Chirens font is like an appendix that reaches all the way to the ground, whereas the secondary basin of the Youlgreave font is quite short.]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 700189 5031682
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.41, 5.5583
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 24′ 36″ N, 5° 33′ 29.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: double-font, cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin, round (both)
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 61, 66 and ill. on p. 62
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 129 and ill. on p. 98
- Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 73 and fn5
- Enlart, Camille, Monuments réligieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région Picarde, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1895, p. 40