Chamalieres-sur-Loire / Chamalières-sur-Loire
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Old Testament - prophets - Daniel? or Jeremiah?
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Image Source: digital image [AP70P00698] of a 1970 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix [70P00698] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP70P00698] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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Old Testament - prophets - David
Scene Description: seen here on the right, with his harp
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Image Source: digital image [AP8915T002055] of a 1989 B&W photograph [8915T002055] by Édouard Bostijn [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP8915T002055] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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Old Testament - story of Solomon - Solomon
Scene Description: seen here crowned, on the left
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Image Source: digital image [AP8915T002055] of a 1989 B&W photograph [8915T002055] by Édouard Bostijn [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP8915T002055] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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Old Testament - the book of Isaiah - Isaiah
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Image Source: digital image [AP70P00698] of a 1970 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix [70P00698] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP70P00698] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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design element - architectural - building
Scene Description: forming a canopy of arches above the Prophets' heads
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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_Église_Saint-Gilles_Bénitier.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire - Abbaye - Porte du cloître"
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2009 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_-_Abbaye_-11.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire, église Saint-Gilles, détail sculpté du portail."
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Image Source: digital photograph 18 June 2009 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire,_église_Saint-Gilles,_détail_sculpté_du_portail.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire - Église Saint-Gilles - Voussure de la porte du cloître"
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2009 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_-_Abbaye_-12.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire - Église Saint-Gilles - Détail d'une voussure de la porte du cloître"
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2009 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_-_Abbaye_-13.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Détail vers le prieuré"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 September 2013 by Pat343434 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Détail_vers_le_prieuré.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - cloister - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire - Abbaye - Châpiteau"
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2009 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_-_Abbaye_-14.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast view - apse - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières -sur-Loire, chevet de l'église"
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Image Source: digital photograph 18 June 2009 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières_-sur-Loire,_chevet_de_l'église.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Église Saint-Gilles de Chamalières-sur-Loire (Classée)"
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view of church interior - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Intérieur de l’église de Chamalières - Chapiteau sirènes bifides"
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 721)
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chamalières-sur-Loire, comm. dans le départ. de la Haute-Loire, France (région Auvergne). Église prieurale romane Saint-Gilles. Bénitier."
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Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chamalières-sur-Loire_Église_Saint-Gilles_Bénitier.JPG] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital image [APMH00023266] of an udated [pre-1927] B&W photograph [MH0023266] by Jean-Eugène Durand [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00023266] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital image [AP70P00698] of a 1970 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix [70P00698] in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP70P00698] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [20204300203] by Christiane Besson-Benoît [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA043_20204300203] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [20204300202] by Christiane Besson-Benoît [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA043_20204300202] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph [20204300204] by Christiane Besson-Benoît [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA043_20204300204] [accessed 17 September 2023]
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view of stoup
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view of stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1962
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Beigbeder (1962: pl. 130)
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view of stoup - base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1962
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Beigbeder (1962: pl. 131)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04071CHA
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise prieurale Saint-Gilles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: 43800 Chamalières-sur-Loire, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the D103, on the S bank of the Loire river, 30 km NNE of Le-Puy-en-Velay [NB: not to be mistaken with plain Chamalieres, a suburb of Clermont-Ferrand]
Historical Region: Auvergne
Font Location in Church: Located now [1962] at the end of the choir
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: priory dedicated to St Mary founded 674; had parochial role ca. 1100; tower demolished in the Revolution; re-built in 1900 -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092640]: "Edifice de la fin du 11e ou du début du 12e siècle, composé de deux parties distinctes. La première époque de construction comprend la nef, les bas-côtés et les transepts. La seconde se compose du choeur avec quatre chapelles absidiales rayonnantes et est surmontée par une voûte en cul-de-four. Chapiteaux sculptés d'animaux fantastiques, de végétation et de figures humaines. Peintures murales du 12e siècle."
Font Notes:
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This Romanesque piece may have been a former capital or part of a column of the old cloister re-used as holy-water stoup; it is usually known as 'le bénitier des Prophètes', for the four figures represented on it under a beautiful canopy. It is described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a superb Romanesque holy-water stoup; the base with the statues of four Prophets, one of them David. Lasteyrie (1929) describes and illustrates this magnificent holy-water stoup which, he suggests, has been carved from a former pillar of the cloister: the quatrefoil-shaped basin is supported by four figures, in which Lasteyrie identifies David, Solomon, and the prophets Daniel and Isaiah. He regrets the choice of such coarse-grain stone for the stoup, especially since the quality of the carving is crude enough in itself. Described and illustrated in Beigbeder (1962), who identifies the figures as David -with the harp- Isaiah, Jeremiah and Solomon. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM43000194]: "Bénitier [...] Pierre [...] Pied et cuve sculptés [...] Quatre personnages sont placés dos à dos le long du pied, chacun sous une arcade sculptée à chaque angle de la cuve du bénitier [...] 12e siècle [...] H = 135 ; l = 44" [NB: one of the entries in Palissy [cf. supra] is annotated regarding the re-carving(?) of the beardless head]. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of this church]
Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00023266]: "Bénitier [...] 12e siècle"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.2015, 3.98497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 12′ 5.4″ N, 3° 59′ 5.89″ E
UTM: 31T 577358 5005807
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 135 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 44 x 44 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM43000194]
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Beigbeder, Olivier, Forez-Velay roman, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1962
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929