Benfeld No. 1 / Bànfàld / Benveltin

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design element - architectural - arch-head - Ogee arch-head - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67000673]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2017 by Spirat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuve_baptismale_de_l'église_Saint_Laurent.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 February 2018]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2014 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benfeld_StLaurent36.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 February 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the west tower of the church seen here in the context of the old town centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benfeld_StLaurent01.jpg] [accessed 16 February 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the 15thC font is partially visible at the far [east] end of the right [south] aisle

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67000673] and the 19thC altar of Saint Materne, Palissy [ref.: IM67000671] -- built into the right wall is a 15thC (?) statue of the same saint, here semi-hidden by the Pascal candle

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03574BEN
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Laurent
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 67230 Benfeld, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the D5, D206, D829, 17 km N of Sélestat, 33 km N of Colmar
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, E end
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at Strasbourg cathedral
Church Notes: church of Merovingian origin listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00023501]: "Eglise primitive sans doute mérovingienne, 1ère mention en 762 ; église reconstruite en 1352 d'après l'inscription primitivement située dans la tour porche, détruite, actuellement dans le choeur qui est la seule partie conservée de cette époque"; re-built 18th, 19thC
Recorded in Palissy [Référence : IM67000673] as a sandstone baptismal font from the third quarter of the 15th century, originally from Ehl ["Fonts baptismaux du 3e quart du 15e siècle provenant du couvent détruit d'_EHL"], also in Alsace; traces of paint are reported on the font; new stone insert repairs also visible. The Patrimoine..., Bas-Rhin (1999, v. 1, p. 82) dates to the third quarter of the 15th century and gives its provenance as the convent of Ehl. This same source informs that the base is not the original and that it resembles the font at the cathedral in Strasburg (dated to 1463), which may account for the latter dating. The font is chalice-shaped with an octagonal basin ornamented with Ogee arches; one of the sides of the basin has a large hole towards the bottom, which may indicate that the font was used at some point in its history as a water trough in a farm.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.370578, 7.595226
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 22′ 14.08″ N, 7° 35′ 42.82″ E
UTM: 32U 395964 5358443

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (pink)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: the large drainage hole on the side is probably not original
Diameter (includes rim): 118 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM67000673] "(dimensions avec couvercle)"

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2010-11-18 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.