Saint-Jean-le-Vieux / Sanctis Johammis surper Domena / Sanctis Johammis Veteris / St-Jean-le-Vieux
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 97)
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patafisik, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2015 by Patafisik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Jean-le-Vieux_(Isère)_abc11.JPG] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Scene Description: a Sheela-na-gig?
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 October 2015 by Patafisik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Jean-le-Vieux_(Isère)_abc7.JPG] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patafisik, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2015 by Patafisik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Jean-le-Vieux_(Isère)_abc7.JPG] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patafisik, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 October 2015 by Patafisik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Jean-le-Vieux_(Isère)_abc4.JPG] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Link886, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph take 14 September 2014 by Link886 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Jean-de-Vieux_14-09-2014_Eglise_14.jpg] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernadette Cadoux, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2008 by Bernadette Cadoux in the Saint-Jean-le-Vieux web site [https://www.saintjeanlevieux.fr/spip.php?article29] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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![described in the source as "bénitier en pierre reposant sur une meule trouée" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170909018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: described in the source as "bénitier en pierre reposant sur une meule trouée" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernadette Cadoux, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph September 2008 by Bernadette Cadoux in the Saint-Jean-le-Vieux web site [https://www.saintjeanlevieux.fr/spip.php?article29] [accessed 9 September 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03531JEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Those at the baptisteries of Venasque and Frejus
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-le-Vieux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: early-12thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA38000021]: "Eglise considérée comme l'un des plus anciens édifices romans du département. Mentionnée en 1115 [...] Les fenêtres romanes subsistent sur les côtés nord et sud de la nef. Le choeur conserve des peintures murales du 18e siècle"
Church Address: 38420 Saint-Jean-le-Vieux, France
Site Location: Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D280, NNW of Revel, NE of Grenoble
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Grenoble
Historical Region: Pays du Grésivaudan, Rhône-Alpes
Font Notes:
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Described in Corblet (1881-1882) as a cylindrical basin shaped like a vat, totally plain, supported on a another stone basin of about the same dimensions and embeded in the ground to the level of the plinth; this base, explains Corblet, "remplissait l'office de piscine pour l'écoulement de l'eau baptismale." The patrimony section of the Saint-Jean-le-Vieux web site [https://www.saintjeanlevieux.fr/spip.php?article29] [accessed 9 September 2017] by Bernadette Cadoux notes: "On ne sait rien de la pierre baptismale creusée en demi sphère située dans le fond de l’église, ni du bénitier en pierre reposant sur une meule trouée, sinon qu’il sont sans doute les éléments les plus anciens de l’église."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 726294 5010664
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.2131, 5.8819
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 12′ 47.16″ N, 5° 52′ 54.84″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: yes
Drainage Notes: [cf. font notes]
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 130 and ill. on p. 87