Saint-Jean-Saverne No. 1/ / Cella Sancti Iohannis / Saint-Jean-des-Choux / Sankt Johann bei Elsass-Zabern / Sankt Johann bei Zabern / Sankt Johann nächst Elsass-Zabern

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coat of arms - Paul Hock

Scene Description: the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne] -- the coat of arms is identified as belonging to the donor, a priest, in Le patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin (1999, v. 2, p. 1139) and the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: below the centre ring moulding -- the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

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Scene Description: the font in the Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in the Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin and cover

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- a modern font in use inside the church; not listed in this Index on account of its modernity

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view - apse - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast end - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - chancel portal

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- the small portal opening into the east end of the nave and chancel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- frieze built into the buttress on the east side of the south chancel portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- frieze built into the south wall on the west side of the south chancel portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view - transept - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - apse - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- view of church exterior - southeast view - apse - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view - apse - detail

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: the Chapelle Saint-Michel, on Mont Saint-Michel, in Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2006 by Pascal Radigue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chapelle_Mt_St_Michel_(Bas-Rhin).jpg] [accessed 25 January 2018]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - east end - capital

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- located on the south side, at the east side of the nave, west side of the chancel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sacristy - doorway

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - sacristy - doorway - tympanum

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - south aisle - capital

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- atlante capital near the south doorway

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-Saverne -- a modern font in use inside the church; not listed in this Index on account of its modernity

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03580SAV

Museum and Inventory Number: Chapelle Saint-Michel [museum]

Church/Chapel: Chapelle St-Michel [originally from Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité, in Saverne?]

Church Location: 67700 Saint-Jean-Saverne, France [coordinates given for the former abbey church]

Country Name: France

Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Saint-Jean-Saverne is located off (N) the D619, about 45 km NW of Strasbourg. Other listed fonts also in this area (e.g.: Neuwiller-l-S., etc.)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg

Historical Region: Alsace / Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord

Font Location in Church: Previously in the chapelle Saint-Martin and museum, now at the baptistery

Date: 1475

Century and Period: 15th century (late), Gothic

Church Notes: According to the Inventaire général... (1978) the Chapelle Saint-Michel housed the municipal museum of Saverne between 1858 and 1967; at the latter date it restored, reconsecrated in 1969 and transformed into a baptismal chapel.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Corblet (1881-1882) simply mentions an antique font at the museum in Saverne; it is most likely the font which was located at he "musée installé autrefois dans la chapelle Saint-Michel" but was "de nouveau consacré au sacrement du baptême dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle" and restored to the serve as the baptismal font of the church of Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité. (Le Patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin, 1999, v. 2, p. 1139). It is an octagonal chalice-shaped font with busy Gothic foliage motifs all over the basin; around the upper border it bears an inscription [cf. Inscription] which informs that the donor was a priest, Paul Hock, and bears the date "1475", a fact underlined by the shield on the underbowl. There is a very pronounced moulding in a manner of centre ring and a square base adorned with rosette[s?]. [cf. other Saverne fonts listed in the Index] [NB: the chapel itself, Chapelle Saint-Michel, on Mont Saint-Michel, outside Saint-Jean Saverne, is documented by the early-12th century as a hermitage of some sort, and in the 14th century as a place for the cult, but we have no information on whether or not it had baptismal rights and a font]. [NB: cf. BSI entry for Saint-Jean-Saverne No. 2 for the other entry in BSI]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.772212, 7.362606

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 46′ 19.96″ N, 7° 21′ 45.38″ E

UTM: 32U 379694 5403427

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 96 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Le patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin (1999, v. 2, p. 1139), and Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318) ** Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: The abbe Paul Hock was the commissionner; unlikely that he was also the artist

Inscription Location: around the upper border of the basin

Inscription Text: "NISI QUIS NATUS / FUERIT DENVO NON / POTEST VIDEI REGNUM DEI / TEMPORE RUPERTI / DUCIS BAVARIAE / EPISCOPI ARGENTINENSIS FECIT / PAULUS HOCK PLEBANUS"

Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1978, p. 318)

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999

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

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Alsace, Bas-Rhin: canton Saverne, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1978