Cluny No. 2

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 5 on p. 539)

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human figure - head - 4

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 5 on p. 539)

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2011 by Mossot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cluny_-_Eglise_Saint-Marcel_-477.jpg] [accessed 1 September 2017]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 5 on p. 539)

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Image Source: digital image of a drawing by P. Legrand in Penjon (Cluny, 1884: 32)

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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [(NUMP) MH0022289] taken by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00022289] [ww.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0704/sap01_mh00022289_p.jpg] [accessed 1 September 2017]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2014 by Pierre Boucaud, in Bourgogne médiévale [http://bourgognemedievale.com/departement-et-pays/saone-et-loire/pays-sud-bourgogne-clunisois/cluny/] [accessed 3 September 2017]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 5a-b on p. 539)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03655CLU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Marcel

Church Patron Saints: St. Marcel of Paris

Church Location: 18 rue Proudhon / place Saint-Marcel, 71250 Cluny, France

Country Name: France

Location: Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: Located off the D15-D980 crossroads, about 25 km NW of Macon, about 100 km NNW of Lyon.

Historical Region: Le Mâconnais, Bourgogne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early Gothic

Cognate Fonts: Ver, Chartres cathedral, Nogent-l'Artaud, etc.

Church Notes: mid-12thC church built after fire destroyed an earlier chapel dedicated to St. Odon; present church listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00113223]

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Noted and illustrated in Penjon (1884). Enlart (1902) lists a Cluny font [not the metal one listed in this Index as being originally from Blagnac, now in the museum at Cluny], as a Tournai-type font, with four heads on the basin sides and five-support base. Corblet (1881-1882) includes a font at Cluny, which he describes as having a hemispheric well in the basin; the basin itself is supported by four corner shafts with heads at the top and a rim over them; he also mentions a band of ivy foliage motif in between the heads and dates the font to the 14th century. Viollet-le-duc describes the font just as Corblet reported it and provides plan and elevation illustrations of it (cf. his Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875, p. 537-538 and ills. on p. 539). Lasteyrie (1926-1927), after Viollet-le-Duc, provides a partial illustration of the Cluny font at the church of Saint-Marcel; it is probably of one piece but the volumes of the central basin and base, and those of the corner columns are well defined, the capitals of the columns carved as large heads while the basin sides are covered in foliage motif. The corner columns are quite broad and still attached to the main body of the font. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM71000265]: "Pilier cylindrique cantonné de quatre colonnettes dont les chapiteaux sont formés de têtes humaines [...] 13e siècle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 25′ 52″ N, 4° 39′ 43″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Viollet-le-Duc (Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875, p. 539)

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

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

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868