Nevers No. 1
Image copyright © Cypris, 2012
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Results: 10 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cypris, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2012 by Cypris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevers_cathedrale_int_05_cuve_baptismale_3.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cypris, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2008 by Cypris [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathédrale_Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte_de_Nevers] [accessed 19 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - apse
Scene Description: the apse of the Romanesque church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cypris, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 September 2005 by Cypris [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathédrale_Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte_de_Nevers] [accessed 19 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Jones, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2005 by David Jones [www.flickr.com/photos/cloudsoup/36355882/] [accessed 18 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eduard van Boxtel, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2008 by Eduard van Boxtel [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathédrale_Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte_de_Nevers] [accessed 19 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font in its baptistery chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cypris, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2012 by Cypris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevers_cathedrale_int_05_cuve_baptismale_1.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern modern font in the baptistery chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cypris, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 February 2012 by Cypris http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nevers_cathedrale_int_05_cuve_baptismale_2.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Moreau.henri, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2011 by Moreau.henri [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathédrale_Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte_de_Nevers] [accessed 19 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martial Bacquet, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2011 by Martial Bacquet [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fouilles_nevers.JPG] [accessed 18 August 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of field notes taken on site 4 July 2001 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03712NEV
Object Type: Baptistery
Object Details: site, Gallo-Roman
Date Visited: 2001-07-04
Font Century and Period/Style: 5th - 12th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Baptistery in the archaeological crypt of the Cathédrale St-Cyr-et-Ste-Julitte
Font Location in Church: In the Cathedral crypt
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta
Church Notes: The original church here would have dated from the establishment of the episcopal see here in the 6th century; possibly re-built in the late8t or early 9th by Charlemagne -- the present cathedral is listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112936]: "12e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 15e siècle". Construction of the original church staterted in the 11thC.
Church Address: 6 Rue Abbé Boutillier, 58000 Nevers, France
Site Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the town centre, off the D907, N of the Loire river, one block W of the Place de la Republique
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers
Historical Region: Nivernais
Additional Comments: recycled baptistery: according to the source [cf. supra], the baptistery was built on a Gallo-Roman site and was recycled from the 6th through the 12th century.
Font Notes:
Click to view
Described in Davies (1962: 5) [after Louis, 1950]. Le Patrimoine des communes de la Nièvre (1999, v. 2, p. 715) reports that on occasion of the reconstruction works carried out after the 1944 destruction by bombs, three different stages of the baptistey were found, ranging from the 6th to the 12th century, and that it may actually have been already built on an existing Gallo-Roman site. Like other such early French baptisteries [cf. listed entries for Aix-en-Provence, Venasque, Fréjus, etc.] it had a vaulted ambulatory area around which were eight chapels, alternatively round and rectangular; there were water conduits for the filling and emptying of the font itself. The source claims that it is the only one known so far in the north of France. [cf. Index entry for Nevers No. 2]. On-site notes: we are most grateful to M. Sébastian Carcel for the access to the crypt and his friendly help during our visit]. The cathedral has a marble baptismal font of the 18th-19th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 511956 5203756
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 46.987222, 3.157222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 46° 59′ 14″ N, 3° 9′ 26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Drainage System: two systems: intake and output
Drainage Notes: a/p source supra
Diameter (inside rim): 13 m (diameter of the interior of the baptistery)*
Notes on Measurements: *a/p Patrimoine.., Nièvre, 1999, v. 2, p. 715
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, II A 111
- Le Patrimoine des communes de la Nièvre, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999, vol. 2, p. 715
- 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, vol. 2: p. 57-63
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 5 and fn3
- 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
- Louis, R., "Le baptistère de la cathédrale de Nevers du VIe au XIe siècle", CVIII (1950), B.M., 1950, pp. 153-180; p. 153-180