Narbonne No. 1

Image copyright © Thierry de Villepin, 2011
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Results: 6 records
animal - amphibious - frog

Scene Description: Mistral's famous "grenouille"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thierry de Villepin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2011 by Thierry de Villepin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Paul_-_Narbonne.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
animal - amphibious - frog
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior in context - west view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of stoup in context

Scene Description: by the south entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ingrid Sparbier, 2017
Image Source: undated digital photograph taken by Ingrid Sparbier [www.guide-sud-france.com/2015/07/30/la-grenouille-dans-le-bénitier/] [accessed 18 February 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 03917NAR
Church/Chapel: Ancienne collégiale Saint-Paul de Narbonne [ancienne basilique Saint-Paul-Serge]
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: rue Dupleix et rue de l'Hôtel Dieu, 11100 Narbonne, France -- Tel.: +33 4 68 90 30 65
Country Name: France
Location: Aude, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Narbonne is 55 kms N of Perpignan
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted on the right column, at the south entrance
Church Notes: original 5thC church destroyed by fire; present church 1180; modified 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 21stC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00102805]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises de France (1966-) as one of the most famous stoups in France through its popularisation by the poet Frédéric Mistral. It is a wall-mounted shell-shaped stoup whose claim to fame comes from the cute frog carved at the bottom of the inside basin well. [NB: there are several fonts/stoups with fish carved on the inside of the basin well (e.g.: Dinan, etc.), but this is the only one known to have a frog in it]. The present font in this church is 18th-century, listed in Palissy [ref.: PM11000538]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.1816,
2.99931
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 10′ 53.76″ N,
2° 59′ 57.52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: shell-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: shell-shaped
Basin Exterior Shape: shell-shaped
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-