Luz-Saint-Sauveur No. 1 / De Lus / De Luso / Guilhermi Etzii de Lunis / Lus e Sent Sauvaire / Luus

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human figure - male

Scene Description: the human figure, hardly discernible now, at the front angle -- according to Enlart, it is a 'Cagot' [cf. FontNotes for details]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

Scene Description: a 'chemin de ronde' between the wall of the apse (right] and the ramparts [left]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

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view of church exterior - north portal - archivolt and tympanum

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view of church exterior - north portal - capital

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view of church exterior - north portal - capital

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de Luz-Saint-Sauveur, Hautes Pyrénées"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2008 by Jean-Christophe Benoist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luz-Saint-Sauveur.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest

Scene Description: partial northwest view of the church within the 14thC fortifications built by the Knights Hospitaller

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2015 by Troumouse [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_(Saint_André)_de_Luz_Saint_Sauveur_dite_des_Templiers_A.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2017]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: a modern stoup inside the church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: the human figure, hardly discernible now, at the front angle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03850LUZ

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-André

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 65120 Luz-Saint-Sauveur, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D918-D921 crossroads, NE of Cauterets, 19 km S of Argelès-Gazost, itself 13 km S of Lourdes

Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted in what is now the church's museum

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century / 17th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; fortified by the Knights Hospitaller in 14thC; modified mid-19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00095393]: "époque de construction 11e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 16e siècle[...] Edifice daté du début du 13ème siècle, d'après un texte gravé dans le porche portant la mention 1240 ou 1260. Au milieu du 14ème siècle, l'église passe aux Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem. La nef et le chevet sont surélevés pour permettre la mise en place d'un chemin de ronde. La chapelle de la Vierge a sans doute été fondée entre 1420 et 1444, et possède un décor peint de cette date. Du 17ème siècle datent le maître-autel en bois doré, la chaire, une pieta polychrome et les toiles peintes. La chapelle Saint-Roch possède un décor mural de 1670. En 1736, l'ordre de Malte succède aux Hospitaliers. En 1876, le clocher est utilisé comme prison militaire. De cette époque datent le décor peint du retable de la chapelle Saint-Roch, ainsi que celui du cul-de-four. A la fin du 19ème siècle, une porte est percée au nord, face au portail roman."

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Enlart (1902, p. 786 and, same page, footnote 3) mentions a few stoups which were restricted to specific users. The one at Luz was, according to Enlart, "réservés à la race méprisée des Cagots" and has a relief figure of a Cagot on it ("sur celui de Luz se détache la figurine en relief d'un des ces malhereux." (Ibid.) [cf. also the Index entries for Angers No. 3, Saint-Savin and Milhac de Nontron, all three are examples of "restricted" stoups]. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) mentions several stoups in this church, one of them, "le plus intéressant" being a small polygonal basin dated 1589, probably not the same one. On-site notes: this wall-mounted mortar-shaped stoup could be as lale as the 17th century or as early as the 12th; it looks like it could have been a re-cut stone; the figure at the front angle is very worn. [NB: the stoup mentioned in the Dictionnaire... [cf. supra] is listed in this Index as Luz-St. Sauveur No. 3]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.871528, -0.003333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 17.5″ N, 0° 0′ 12″ W

UTM: 30T 744770 4750905

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square (wall-mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 3-6 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 20 cm

Basin Depth: 9 cm

Height of Basin Side: 17-18 cm

Basin Total Height: 17-18 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 24 x 24 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

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