Menat / Cellula Manatensis / Cellula Manathensis / Menatum

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Apostle or saint - St. Menelaus - betrothal of St. Menelaus

Scene Description: E side of the font: the betrothal of St. Ménélé [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. Menelaus - betrothal of St. Menelaus

Scene Description: SE side of the basin: the betrothal of St. Ménélé [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. Menelaus - betrothal of St. Menelaus - detail

Scene Description: the joining of the hands

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

angel - showing wings

Scene Description: SW side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

cleric - bishop - seated - with staff

Scene Description: NE side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

design element - architectural - building - fortress - with human figure

Scene Description: N side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - bearded - orant

Scene Description: NW side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - left hand points with right hand to angel at his left

Scene Description: W side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: S side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: view of the lower part of the west side of the basin showing the drain outlet in the centre

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior - drain

with the east side in the foreground; the drain hole is off-centre, towards the northwest side of the inner basin, and exits on the outer west side, at the bottom

Scene Description: with the east side in the foreground; the drain hole is off-centre, towards the northwest side of the inner basin, and exits on the outer west side, at the bottom

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Scene Description: entranceway from the cloister into the church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - well

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast end

Scene Description: with the facade and portal of the south transept in the centre

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2009 by Matthieu Perona [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Menat.JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: arms of the abbey?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - capital

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2011 by Basvb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Saint-Ménelée_de_Menat_(72).JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover

photograh taken by Eugène [Amédée] Lefèvre-Pontalis (1862-1923), "Medieval archaeologist who helped establish a chronology for Romanesque monuments in France. Chair of Medieval Archaeology at the École Nationale des Chartes." [source: Dictionary of Art Historians [https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lefevrepontalise.htm [accessed 31 July 2017]]

Scene Description: photograh taken by Eugène [Amédée] Lefèvre-Pontalis (1862-1923), "Medieval archaeologist who helped establish a chronology for Romanesque monuments in France. Chair of Medieval Archaeology at the École Nationale des Chartes." [source: Dictionary of Art Historians [https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lefevrepontalise.htm [accessed 31 July 2017]]

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1923 B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc ; Gélatino-bromure ; Support verre] [(NUMP) LP008039] taken by Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis, in Mémoire [ref.: APLP008039] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0177/sap01_lp008039_p.jpg] [accessed 31 July 2017]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the west side of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 July 2001 by BSI

view of font in context - east side

Scene Description: with the west door in the background

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2011 by Basvb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Saint-Ménelée_de_Menat_(102).JPG] [accessed 20 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 04075MEN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Ménélée

Church Patron Saints: St. Menelaus [7th century?]

Church Location: 30 Le Bourg, 63560 Menat, France

Country Name: France

Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Directions to Site: Located off the D18, in the Combrailles, 40 km ESE of Monluçon, W of Vichy, NNW of Clermont-Ferrand

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Clermont [Archdiocèse de Bourges]

Historical Region: Les Combrailles, Pays de Saint-Éloy, Auvergne

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

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) dates the existence of an abbey as far back as the 6thC; restored by St. Menelaus late-7thC; re-built (?) 11th-12thC; became parish church of Menat in 1802 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092182]

Font Notes: Click to view

A reference in Armand G. Mallay's Essai sur les églises Romanes et Romano-Bysantines du département du Puy-de-Dôme (Moulins: Desrosiers, 1838), p. 43: "Quelques chapiteaux bysantins d'une bonne facture sont disposés avec soin dans la cour du presbytère; mais ils n'ont jamais appartenu à l'édifice actuel. Le plus curieux provient de quelques démolitions opérées à l'antique abbaye de Menat", probably refers to the former capital at Menat that now serves as baptismal font. Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-: II B 58) as a former capital from the choir of the old church (12th cent.?) later turned into baptismal font. The same source reports that Émile Mâle has identified the scene ornamenting it as the betrothal of St. Ménélé, the second founder of the abbey in the 7th century. This same identification is confirmed in Larouzière-Montlosier (2003: 249-251), who identifies this object as one of three capitals left from the choir of the old abbey church, the other two being now in 1)a museum in Baltimore, U.S.A, and 2)the Musée des beaux arts de Clermont-Ferrand, France. Larouzière-Montlosier (ibid.) further suggests that the Menat object shares many traits with a capital from Conques that represents the martyrdom of St. Foy. Listed and illustrated in Paissiy [ref.: PM63000568]: "fonts baptismaux [...] Creusés dans un chapiteau historié [...] 12e siècle". On-site notes: the beautifully carved font does indeed look like a capital, a very large one [cf. measurements]; it is stylistically different from the capitals of the nave and it is too big to have been a cloister capital. In view of its ornamentation and shape, it must have stood in a position which allowed viewing all of its faces. The sides of the font are ornamented as follows: starting with the south side: 1)large acanthus plant/tree on one of the sides and moving L->R , 2)clean-shaven male places ring on woman's left hand; 3)bearded crowned male holds/gives the woman's hand to the man in the left; 4)female figure whose hand is being tended to the man on the left; 5)crowned, enthroned and bearded male figure with staff witnesses the marriage scene; 6)human fugure looks out from a tall castle; 7)bearded male holds medallion in right hand while his left hand is raised with exposed palm (oath pose?); 8)clean-shaven male points to the angel on his right; 9) winged angel has right arm to his middle while the left is raised with exposed palm (oath pose?). The font is in fairly good shape and the carving is excellent. The drain hole of the shallow basin is off-centre, towards the west side and the exit hole is at the bottom of the west side, near the modern lower base. There are two cover staple marks on the rim upper surface, at the back. The font is now raised on a low modern plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.10417, 2.90444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 6′ 15.01″ N, 2° 54′ 15.98″ E

UTM: 31T 492611 5105629

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: square-to-round [capital shape]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 6-22 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 39 cm* / 50 cm**

Basin Depth: 18 cm*

Basin Total Height: 68 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm* / 75 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 88 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 60 x 60 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: PM63000568]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: there was a low-pyramidal cover on the font when photographed before 1923; there are now two staple (?) marks on the upper rim surface

REFERENCES

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

Larouzière-Montlosier, Dominique de, L'invention romane en Auvergne: de la poutre à la voûte (fin du Xe-XIe siècle), Nonette: Créer, 2003