Saverne No. 1

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Results: 22 records

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on the front panel of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107b.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - with book

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel, to the right of the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107a.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - with book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_33.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Ambrose

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel, to the right of Mark's

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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B05: Apostle or saint - St. Augustine of Hippo

Scene Description: probably on the panel to the right of Ambrose's

B06: unidentified

Scene Description: we have no information on the theme in this panel

B07: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - with book

Scene Description: probably in the panel to the left of John's

B08: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - holding book

Scene Description: seen here in the left panel, to the left of the Batism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107b.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: atop the buttress-like decoration at the angels; the putto-faced cherubs fit into the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_33.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8 - columns with capitals

Scene Description: the columns of the arcade are semi-hidden behind ornate scroll buttresses

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_33.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: ornate leafy scroll buttresses with cherub's atop

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_33.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a combination, with large leaves at the angles, and scallop-like leaves in cartouche-like frames on the sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a dense opattern of little leaves all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a combination of leaves in various shapes on the stem and the angles of the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_34.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: in several shapes, some cartouche-like frames

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_34.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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inscription

Scene Description: an inscription in capital letters below every panel; the ones beloww the figures identify them; the one below the Captism of Christ scene bears the date 1615

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_107b.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: an interesting late-medieval example of bi-corporate lion, originally perhaps from a fountain, given the drain hole in the mouth -- Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67004353]: "lions rampants à tête commune sur l'angle [...] partie en remploi [...] fragment d'ancienne fontaine ? [...] 14e siècle (?)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_68.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: the stone head is listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67004348]: "congés sculptés d'un côté d'une tête barbue (Christ ?), de l'autre, d'une sculpture non identifiée [...] Grès très érodé [...] 4e quart 15e siècle".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_78.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Sourca caption: "Église notre dame de la nativité à Saverne, 67700, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. Église Collégiale du XVème-XVIIème siècle, de style roman. Tour-porche romane du XIIème siècle, nef gothique du XVème siècle, vitraux."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2009 by Benjamin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_notre_dame_de_la_nativite.jpg] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 September 2016 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_4.jpg] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67004291, PM67000290]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_NotreDameNativité_106.JPG] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 'statue de procession Christ aux stigmates' is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM67000296] as 18thC? -- the font is listed in Palissy [ref.: IM67004291, PM67000290]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2010 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saverne_6.jpg] [accessed 25 January 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03800SAV

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Notre-Dame-en-sa-Nativité de Saverne / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Barthélémy puis collégiale de chanoines de saint Augustin Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: place de l'Eglise, Saverne, France

Country Name: France

Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Saverne is located at the D1004-D1404 crossroads, about 45 km NW of Strasbourg. Other listed fonts also in this area (e.g.: Neuwiller-l-S., etc.)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg

Historical Region: Alsace

Font Location in Church: Inside the church. in the nave

Date: 1615

Century and Period: 17th century(early), Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hans Faber

Cognate Fonts: The font in the parish church at Molsheim, dated 1624 (a/p the Inventaire..., 1978)

Church Notes: Listed in Mérimée [refs.: PA00084954, IA00055464]: "Le clocher porche et les murs latéraux du vaisseau central remontent au milieu du 12e siècle [...] église paroissiale sous le vocable de saint Barthélémy attesté depuis 1285 ; devient en 1485 église collégiale des chanoines séculiers du couvent des augustins [...]"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Palissy lists two baptismal fonts in this church: the one from 1615 [ref.: IM67004291, and another, more modern, of the 18th century [ref.: IM67004292]. According to one source (Le patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin, 1999, v. 2, p. 1141) this early 17th century Renaissance font is the work of Hans Faber, one of the Faber family of artists of Saverne. It is a sandstone octagonal basin profusely ornamented and mounted on a square stem and a square lower base. The sides of the basin have the four Evangelists, two Fathers of the Church and a scene of the Baptism of Christ, all under an arcade which has cherubs in the spandrels. The underbowl and the stem of the base are decorated with foliage. There is a metal octagonal dome cover, probably modern, topped with a cross finial. This font is also described and illustrated in the Inventaire général... (1978) in which the two Fathers of the Church are identified as St. Ambrose and St. Augustin; this source confirms that the "archives communales" have a Hans Faber being paid the sum of "30 livres pour l'exécution des fonts baptismaux." [NB: four evangelists + baptism + two fathers = 7; we have no information on the remaining eighth panel of the basin]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.741156, 7.363983

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 44′ 28.16″ N, 7° 21′ 50.34″ E

UTM: 32U 379721 5399973

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 108 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Patrimoine..., Bas-Rhin, 1999, v. 2, p. 1141, and Inventaire général... (1978) ** Inventaire général... (1978)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: cf. Font notes for the figures represented

Inscription Location: on each basin side, below the figures

Inscription Text: The name of each Evangelist and Father of the Church under the figures, and, under the Baptism of Christ scene, "ANNO 1615"

Inscription Source: Inventaire général... (1978)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, brass?

Notes: [cf. Font notes for details]

REFERENCES

Le Patrimoine des communes du Bas-Rhin, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Alsace, Bas-Rhin: canton Saverne, Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1978