Chirens
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the priory church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Poudou99, 2013
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: the priory church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud-Victor Monteux, 2012
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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 font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 98)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03526CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Prieuré Notre-Dame-du-Gayet de Chirens
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 161 rue Notre Dame du Gayet, 38850 Chirens, France -- Tel.: +33 4 76 35 20 02
Country Name: France
Location: Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: With an appended secondary basin, like the font at Youlgreave (but not the same shape)
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]
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.41, 5.5583
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 24′ 36″ N, 5° 33′ 29.88″ E
UTM: 31T 700189 5031682
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted) (double-font)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Enlart, Camille, Monuments réligieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région Picarde, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1895