Pernes-les-Fontaines / Paternae / Paternensis castri / Paternis villa / Pernes
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: stylised motifs incised in the spandrels, between the thick ribs of the basin sides
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
design element - motifs - torus-scotia
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: Broad ribs deeply carved
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
view of basin - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: the stone insert is in place to support the smaller basin or insert used now in baptisms
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes-les-Fontaines_-_Portail_v3.JPG] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes-les-Fontaines_-_Ouest_3.JPG] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EmDee, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes-les-Fontaines_-_Ouest_3.JPG] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François de Dijon, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2014 by François de Dijon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes-les-Fontaines_église_Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth_02.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 October 2010 by Véronique Pagnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes_-_Nef_de_ND_de_Nazareth.JPG] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christophe Finot, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2016 by Christophe.Finot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pernes_les_Fontaines_-_58.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2017]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 23 June 2001 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 03558PER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne prieurale, puis collégiale] Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth de Pernes-les-Fontaines
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 84210 Pernes-les-Fontaines, France
Country Name: France
Location: Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: Pernes [i.e., Pernes-les-Fontaines] is N of Velleron, 6 km S of Carpentras down the D938, about 35 kms NE of Avignon.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Avignon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: collegiate church original 11thC priory of the abbaye de Saint-Ruf d'Avignon -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00082113]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Corblet (1881-1882) simply as a Renaissance font. On-site notes: large cauldron-type baptismal font of beige marble; the plain protruding upper rim is followed down by a deep scotia; the basin sides are covered in broad deeply-carved ribs; the space between the ribs is adorned with incised foliage motifs, very stylised. One of the sides of the upper rim shows evidence of damage and a later repair. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 11th-century church here] -- [NB: the church in the nearby hamlet of Les Valayans, Eglise des Valayans, aka Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception de Pernes-les-Fontaines, is listed in listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA84000069] as late-19th century].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.9921, 5.0883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 59′ 57″ N, 5° 3′ 39″ N
UTM: 31T 665238 4873849
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 20 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm
Basin Depth: 55 cm
Basin Total Height: 87 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
REFERENCES
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882