Frejus No. 1 / Fréjus

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 2001 by BSI

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view of church exterior - baptistery

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: with the baptistery in the foreground

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view of church exterior - maquette

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Esther Barrutia

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2022)

view of church exterior - northeast end

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view of church interior - baptistery - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Esther Barrutia

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view of church interior - baptistery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Esther Barrutia

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2022 by Esther Barrutia

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2022)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03607FRE

Church/Chapel: Baptistère paléo-chrétien, Cathédrale Saint-Léonce

Church Patron Saints: St. Léonce [bishop of Fréjus, ✝ 433]

Church Location: 58 Rue de Fleury, 83600 Fréjus, France

Country Name: France

Location: Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Frejus can be reached from Cannes (30 kms S-W down the A8-E80 motorway or, 33 kms along the "Corniche"/N98); also from St Tropez (32 kms up the N98)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon [formerly Diocese of Fréjus]

Historical Region: Provence

Font Location in Church: The baptistery is on the E side of the cathedral

Century and Period: 5th - 7th century, Early Christian? / Merovingian?

Cognate Fonts: Aix-en-Provence

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Cathedral guide and authorities for their assistance in documenting the site. We are also grateful to Esther Barrutia for her photographs of the interior

Church Notes: The baptistery has two fonts: the central sunken one in the middle of the octagon and a free-standing barrel-like font in one of the side chapels between the columns. The cloister ceiling has unusual Apocalyptic paintings. The area is closed on Mondays. -- cathedral and baptistery listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081606], with dates in the 5thm 12th and 13thC

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Corblet describes it as an octagonal building on the east side of the Cathédral de St-Étienne, with one single window to let light in, its dome supported on eight granite columns with white marble capitals and half-buried bases. He gives the text of an inscription no longer visible [cf. Inscriptions] (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 62-63). Therion (1980, p. 158) gives the size of the rotunda as "7m 70" {diameter?], the smallest of the southeastern baptisteries of France. Delcor (1973) suggests a 6th or 8th century dating. [NB: our gratitude to the Cathedral guide and authorities for their assitance in documneting the site]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.433056, 6.736944

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 25′ 59″ N, 6° 44′ 13″ E

UTM: 32T 316840 4811394

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, mixed (granite, marble, etc.)

Font Shape: baptistery building

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal (inner perimeter)

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal (outer perimeter)

Notes on Measurements: Therion (1980, p. 158) gives the size of the rotunda as "7m 70" {diameter?)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Corblet reports that the inscription is no longer visible [ca. 1881]

Inscription Location: Under the porch [disappeared]

Inscription Text: "HOC TIBI RESTITVIT SEGVALD BAPTESTA IIOHANNE" [sic]

Inscription Source: Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 63

REFERENCES

Les premiers monuments chrétiens de la France, Paris: A. Picard ; Ministère ce la culture et de la francophonie, Direction du patrimoine, Sous-direction de l'archéologue, 1995-1998

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Delcor, M., "Les cuves romanes et leur figuration en Roussillon, Cerdagne et Conflent", 4, Cahiers Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, 1973, pp. 96-109, 4 pl.; r["References"]

Grabar, André, Art de la fin de l'antiquité et du Moyen Age, Paris: Collège de France, 1968

Guyon, Jean, Les premiers baptistères des Gaules (IVe-VIIIe siècles), Roma: Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell'Arte in Roma / Union des instituts étrangers de Rome, 2000

Thirion, Jacques, Alpes romanes, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1980

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928