Chantelle / Cantilia / Chantelle-la-Vieille
Results: 16 records
B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
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B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
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B03: Christ - Christ in Majesty - right hand raised in benediction
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the whole of the abbey compound
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Armagnac-commons, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 December 2009 by Armagnac-commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_de_Chantelle.JPG] [accessed 8 February 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the courtyard of the abbey
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: with the tower partially visible here
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church exterior in context - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church exterior in context - south view - detail
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
view of church interior - capital - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 1 July 2001 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 04072CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Chantelle
Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent of Saragosse
Church Location: 03140 Chantelle, France
Country Name: France
Location: Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located 35 kms WNW of Vichy, 45 S of Moulins, 65 N of Clermont-Ferrand
Historical Region: Pays Saint-Pourcinois
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early Gothic
Church Notes: church originally of the 5thC; later re-built 11th-12thC. The church is described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as being of the typical Romanesque style of the Auvergne. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00093035]: "Abbaye construite sur un promontoire surplombant la Bouble. L'église, de style roman, a été construite à la fin du 11e siècle ou au début du 12e siècle ; elle comporte une nef de trois travées, un transept marqué et un choeur à déambulatoire. Le logis abbatial et le cloître, dont il ne reste que deux galeries, ont été élevés au 15e siècle. L'abbaye a été vendue comme bien national pendant la Révolution. Au cours du 19e siècle, elle a été restaurée et occupée par des religieuses bénédictines."
Font Notes:
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Reported in an oral presentation by Georges de Soultrait to the 21st session of the 1854 Congrès archéologique de France, as one of five Romanesque fonts in the Allier, although he notes that the style of the carvings on the font -Annunciation; Baptism of Christ; Chirst in Majesty- signals the end of the 12th or the beginning of the 13th century; this former font was also being used as holy-water stoup at the time [="Celui de l'église paroissiale de Chantelle, qui sert également de bénitier, offre trois scènes de l'Ecriture, sculptées sur ses parois: c'est, au milieu, le Baptême de Jésus Christ; d'un côté, l'Annonciation; de l'autre, le Sauveur nimbé, entouré d'anges, bénissant; ces sculptures annoncent la fin du XIIe. ou le commencement du XIIIe. siècle"]. Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a baptismal font dating to the early 13th century and now serving as holy-water stoup; the ornamentation includes low reliefs of the Baptism of Christ, the Annunciation and Christ in Majesty. On-site notes: our visit to the abbey of St-Vincent found no font or stoup matching such description in this church, nor could the resident nuns provide any clue as to the whereabouts of the object mentioned in the Dictionnaire...; even the oldest member of the convent had no recollection of any such object ever being there, nor could any record be found about it. The church does however have a set of interesting capitals well worth a visit.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.242222, 3.151944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 14′ 32″ N, 3° 9′ 7″ E
UTM: 31T 511714 5120972
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Société française d'archéologie, Congrès archéologique de France (XXIe session, Moulins, France, 1854), Paris: Derache, 1855