Moutier-Saint-Jean No. 2
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Scene Description: 12th-13thC? -- unlikely! [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 2: fig. 1 on p. 201)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03749MOU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: ca. 1130?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de la Conversion de Saint Paul Saint Jean Baptiste
Font Location in Church: Just outside the main entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist & St. Paul
Church Notes: parish church 12thC; modified 13th and 16thC; some furnishings originally from the abbey church [demolished] Listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA89000293]: "l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste existait, semble-t-il, dès le début du 12e siècle et dépendait de l'abbaye de Moutiers-Saint-Jean. D'après V. Petit, elle aurait été reconstruite au 13e siècle. En fait, malgré d'importants remaniements qui modifièrent son apparence, l'essentiel de l'église du 12e siècle a subsisté" -- monastery/abbey founded ca. 450; reformed 816-817; sacked and burned a number of times; sold as rubble 1797; the doorway from the old monastery was bought by, and is now installed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Cloisters), in New York -- on-site remain listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112565]
Church Address: 12 Rue Saint-Paul, 21500 Moutiers-Saint-Jean, France
Site Location: Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D1, 3-4 km W of Athie, 15 km from Montbard, about 70 km NW of Dijon
Historical Region: Bourgogne
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 2: 200 and fig. 1 on p. 201): an important holy-water stoup located before the pier of the central door. The façade of this church was built ca. 1130, and the holy-water stoup seems to belong to that period; this stoup appears to be made of bronze and located right at the feet of the statue of the Virgin that forms part of the pier […] It is mounted on a support so thin that it can only be made of metal [our translation]. Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 13th-century stoup located just outside the church entrance. The stoup is not mentioned in the Palissy entry [ref.: IM89001564] for the collection of church furnishings [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/IM89001564] [accessed 22 March 2024] [cf. BSI entry Moutier-Saint-Jean No.1 for the 17th-century font here, which may perhaps be the object described in Viollet-le-Duc as a stoup]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 591833 5268398
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.5625, 4.2208
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 33′ 45″ N, 4° 13′ 14.88″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal?, bronze?
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 784 footnote 4
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868, vol. 2, 200 and fig. 1 on p. 201