Hix / Hysi

Results: 19 records

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a lock remains from an old cover, but not the cover itself

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the large centre drain hole

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - apse - window

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - belfry

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - gate - tympanum

Scene Description: a transplanted inscribe stone

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - door - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - crucifix

Scene Description: 13thC (?)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Scene Description: 12th-13thC (?) Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the stairs leading to the organ loft are visible behind the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup - detail

Scene Description: an encircled cross on the lower base side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03554HIX

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin d'Hix / Sant Martí d'Ix

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Ix, 66760 Bourg-Madame, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N116, just E of, and in the municipality of Bourg-Madame, E across the border from Puigcerda. Another very interesting font at Palau-de-Cerdagne nearby

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Perpignan

Historical Region: Cerdagne / Languedoc-Roussillon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the N side, directly opposite the south door, under the stairs of the organ loft and bell-tower

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Church Notes: original church documented 10thC; present church 12thC -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103972] -- Worthy of note in this church: an old tympanum now mounted over the outer gate, a colourful retable on the south wall with lovely Madonna-and-child, an early crucifix and the "ferraile" of the front door, typical of the one found in mountain areas, both here and in the higher Alps.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Corblet (1881-1882) as a Romanesque font "qui paraît être une oeuvre des Goths". On-site notes: a large cauldron-type granite baptismal font devoid of any ornamentation but having still on its basin side the lock of the original (?) cover; the drain hole, like many found in the fonts of this area is quite large (18 cm in diameter). There is also a pedestal stoup of mixed parentage and unknown date [cf. Images]. In his Notes sur l'art réligieux du Roussillon 2e partie: l'ornementation (Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, vol. 11, 1893: 361-362), Brutails mentions a number of ancient fonts and holy-water stoups, among which he notes the stoup at Hix: "Le bénitier d'Hix me parait être contemporain de l'église et remonter au XIIe siècle: le socle est cubique et, sur une de ses faces, présente une croix; le fût comprend une pyramide tronquée à quatre pans, dont le sommet s'enfonce dans un large bourrelet, et un cylindre qui émerge du même bourrelet et porte la cuve." Brutails does not mention the font itself.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.433953, 1.955089

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 26′ 2.23″ N, 1° 57′ 18.32″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes for details]

Rim Thickness: 13-17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 93 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 121-123 cm

Basin Depth: 40 cm

Basin Total Height: 70 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: the basin side still has the lock of the old cover

REFERENCES

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