Barjols / Barjòu

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Christ - Agnus Dei - passant - with cross and banner

Scene Description: passant to the right; in a scroll and foliage frame, front side of the basin

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

animal - mammal - lion - claw - 4

Scene Description: one at each corner of the square lower base

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

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: mixed with scroll ornamentation

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

design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: mixed with foliage motif ornamentation

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

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

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

inscription

Scene Description: with the 1595 date

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

inscription

Scene Description: AW? [i.e., Alpha-Omega?]

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

view of basin - interior

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

view of basin - upper view

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

view of church exterior - capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 September 2011 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barjols_Notre-Dame_Kapitell_905.JPG] [accessed 29 July 2016]

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view of church exterior - portal

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

view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Late-Romanesque (?) tympanum from an earlier portal here [cf. Fevrier Paul-Albert. Fragments romans de la collégiale de Barjols (Var). In: Bulletin Monumental, tome 117, n°3, année 1959. pp. 203-220. DOI : 10.3406/bulmo.1959.3859 -- www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1959_num_117_3_3859 ]

Scene Description: Late-Romanesque (?) tympanum from an earlier portal here [cf. Fevrier Paul-Albert. Fragments romans de la collégiale de Barjols (Var). In: Bulletin Monumental, tome 117, n°3, année 1959. pp. 203-220. DOI : 10.3406/bulmo.1959.3859 -- www.persee.fr/doc/bulmo_0007-473x_1959_num_117_3_3859 ]

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

view of church exterior - west tower

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

view of font

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 03771BAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ancienne église collégiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption / Eglise collégiale Notre-Dame dite aussi collégiale Saint-Marcel

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: rue des Jardins, 83670 Barjols, France -- Tel.: 04 94 77 00 43

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D554, 5 km S of Tavernes, 70 kms NE of Aix-en-Provence

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon

Historical Region: Provence Verdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the S side, near the W door

Date: 1595

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Renaissance

Church Notes: original church here 1014; The Phaidon guide to the Provence..., 1986, p. 52 points out an interesting Romanesque relief from the former tympanum now at the antependium of the altar of St. Marcellus, in the left aisle: Majestas Domini with "hand of God" [cf. Images section for illustration] -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081537] as a church of the 14th, 17th and 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view

On-site notes: the hemispheric basin has a wide band of scroll and foliage ornamentation on the upper half, with an Agnus Dei inside one of the scrolls on the front side; the lower part and underbowl are ornamented with a blind concave arcade; the upper surface of the rim has a single groove all around. The short base has a cylindrical upper part on which appear a date (1595?) and two letters (the "A" is clear but the other one could be a "W" or omega, a "V" or even an "N" -- cf. Image section for an illustration]; the lower base is square with claw motif at each corner. Information available at this church reports a restoration of this font in 1826 and another in 1860; repairs are visible on the inside well of the basin; the old lid hinges are broken, which may have caused some the breakage. The entry for this church in the diocese web site [www.diocese-frejus-toulon.com/Barjols-Notre-Dame-de-l-Assomption.html] [accessed 29 July 2016] states: "vasque des fonts baptismaux, qui portent le millésime de 1395", but the reading of the date must be wrong, as the font uses Renaissance-style decoration.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.557173, 6.008319

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 33′ 25.82″ N, 6° 0′ 29.95″ E

UTM: 32T 258362 4827040

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the inside of the well was restored in the 19th century; no lining

Rim Thickness: 15 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 80 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm

Basin Depth: 50 cm

Basin Total Height: 75 cm

Height of Base: 30 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the sides of the pedestal base

Inscription Text: "1595" / "A (?) W (?)"

Inscription Source: images area

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Phaidon, Provence and the Côte d'Azur: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1986