Saint-Veran No. 1 / Saint-Véran No. 1 / Veran

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animal - mammal - dog

animal - mammal - rabbit or hare?

animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: sliding (?) up one of the the lower base corners; it appears to be the only one

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

animal?

Scene Description: below the human hand: flipping?

cleric - bishop's baculum

Scene Description: to the left of the bishop's mitre

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

cleric - bishop's mitre

Scene Description: to the right of the Tau cross

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - face, head or mask

Scene Description: seen here on the left, to the right of the bishop's mitre

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - face, head or mask - 4

Scene Description: protruding between the two registers; not identical, one or two of them appear to be bearded males

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - hand

Scene Description: when this photograph was taken in 1986 (?) the hand showed with all the fingers, and it is seen to stand for the benediction gesture; later on, in June 2001 [see alternate photograph] the hand had been damaged and the index finger lost

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of a photograph taken in 1986 by Marine Audibert, in Mémoire [NUMI 00053442ZA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1248/mhr93_00053442za_p.jpg] [accessed 5 June 2016]

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human figure - hand

Scene Description: when this photograph was taken in June 2001, the hand appeared to have lost part of the index finger, and pointing to the inscription with the middle finger, which is probably not what the carver meant to convey [NB: there is an earlier photograph in which the hand is complete, and in it the hand appears to be in the classical benediction position; alternatively the complete hand could be seen as pointing to the inscription with the inex and middle finger, a more acceptable premise.

Image Source: detail of a digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - head - face

human figure - male - wrestler or weight-lifter - 2

Scene Description: they appear to be engaged in a match or fight, but some sources described them as holding hands [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

human figure - warrior - with spear

symbol - bell

Scene Description: seen here to the left of the large face or head, left of the Greek cross, right above the pair of facing humans

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek

Scene Description: seen here to the left of the large face o head, above the pair of facing humans

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Tau cross

Scene Description: a large one seen here by the head or face on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Tau cross

Scene Description: between the mitre and the baculum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - letter - A

Scene Description: a cross under an angled roof? a masons level?

symbol - moon - crescent - in a circle

symbol - star - 5-point

Scene Description: at the extreme left, to the left of the pair of facing human figures

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

symbol - sun - in a circle

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - porch - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04048VER

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Véran

Church Patron Saints: St. Veran & St. Mary Magdalen

Church Location: 05350 Saint-Véran, France -- Tel.: +33 4 92 51 02 75

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: In the Parc régional du Queyras, 15 kms SE of Chateau-Queyras

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Gap

Historical Region: Le Queyras

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the door, in the centre of the nave

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

Church Notes: The present church dates from 1688 but the stoup must have been moved from an earlier church; the source [cf. supra] illustrates also a "stylophore" lion, not uncommon in this area, probably of a similar date as the stoup. [NB: there actually two such lions on the outside, the usual pair, one holding a child, the other, a cub. There are also some interesting capitals which appear to match some of the ornamentation on the stoup].

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-): chalice-shaped and crudely carved round Romanesque stoup made of serpentine [kaolinite-serpentine subgroup]. The basin sides have a broad band illustrated with scenes (?) and has at least one head/face (?) on one of the sides, at the rim; the surface is very weathered and the relief very shallow, which makes the identification hard. On-site notes: there are actually two registers of ornamentation on the basin: one on the upper level of the basin, on the sides of the rim; the other around the middle part of the basins sides; there are three heads, however that protrude from the basin sides cutting into both registers. There is also an inscription that runs between the two heads. It is very difficult to determine what motifs are part of the original work and what others have been added through the centuries; some motifs appear more like added graffitti or crude scratched drawings. Here are the details as we identified them. First register: face - bell - cross -(Head1) - first inscription - (Head2) - second inscription - hand pointing to the inscription - (Head3) - baculum - Tau cross - bishop's mitre - face. Second register: 5-point star - two wrestlers - (Head 1) - cross under an agle roof? - rabbit/hare / Tau cross - (Head2) - man armed with spear - beast - hand from Head3 - (Head3) - moon - 10-point/ray sun in a circle. One side of the basin, about 1/5 of it or so, is blank; this may well be due to the original location of the stoup, probably aginst a wall or in a corner. The upper rim surface still has a hinge from an old lid. The pedestal of the base is round and the lower base square, both plain except for a couple of mouldings and a snake at one of the angles. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM05000297]: "bénitier [...] Serpentine sculptée ; vasque arrondie, fût à relief torique, base carrée [...] 13e siècle [...] Vasque : quatre têtes en relief, partie supérieure ornée d'une petite tête, une crosse, une croix et une mitre ; partie intermédiaire : un dragon, un bras et une main bénissante, un guerrier et un autre personnage portant une lance, devant lui un chien ou un lièvre, un niveau de maçon, un tau, deux personnages face à face et se donnant la main, une étoile à cinq pointes, un soleil et peut-être un disque solaire, piédestal à triple moulure. [...] Inscription".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.700361, 6.867639

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 42′ 1.3″ N, 6° 52′ 3.5″ E

UTM: 32T 331063 4951877

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 46-49 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 64-65 cm* / 68 cm**

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 44 cm*

Height of Base: 68 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm* / 114 cm**

Square Base Dimensions: 38 x 40 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: PM05000297]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: the inscription is very weathered, almost illegible

Inscription Location: on the basin side, between the protruding heads

Inscription Text: "[?] CONFESOR [?] E/C NOV [?] DOMINO"

Inscription Source: On-site

REFERENCES

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