Castelnau-de-Levis / Castelnau-de-Lévis

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Christ - monogram

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Georges Estève in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00079232] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned - diamond or lozenge

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Georges Estève in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00079232] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: very crudely rendered -- two of them are visible here

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Georges Estève in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00079232] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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symbol - floral - fleur de lis

symbol - shield - emblem - Mary the Virgin

Image Source: digital image in the Diocèse d'Albi [https://albi.catholique.fr/eglises-du-tarn/castelnau-de-levis-eglise-saint-barthelemy/] [accessed 12 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Castelnau-de-Lévis : l'Église Saint-Barthélemy."

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2019 by Tylwyth Eldar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castelnau-de-Lévis_-_Eglise_01.jpg] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - porch and portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Porche de l'église Saint-Barthélemy" -- the reddish vessel on the left, sitting on a stone ledge of the porch, is quite likely the remains of a baptismal font

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2013 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porche_de_l'église_Saint-Barthélemy.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Barthélemy de Castelnau-de-Lévis. Façade sud-ouest de l'église et de son porche"

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2013 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Façade_sud-ouest_de_l'église_et_de_son_porche.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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view of font in context

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 September 2013 by Thérèse Gaigé [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porche_de_l'église_Saint-Barthélemy.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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view of sroup

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Georges Estève in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00079232] [accessed 11 August 2024]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux dans une église de Castelnau 1878"

Image Source: digital image of a 1878 [crayon sur papier contrecollé] drawing [ARO 1981 869 3 23 5] by Victor Ruprich-Robert in the Musée d’Orsay [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/fonts-baptismaux-dans-une-eglise-de-castelnau-62907] [accessed 12 August 2024]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital image in the Diocèse d'Albi [https://albi.catholique.fr/eglises-du-tarn/castelnau-de-levis-eglise-saint-barthelemy/] [accessed 12 August 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04120CAS

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Barthélemy de Castelnau-de-Lévis

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: 13 Rue des Radis, 81150 Castelnau-de-Lévis, France -- Tel.: +33 5 63 60 62 45

Country Name: France

Location: Tarn, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D1 [aka rue Sicard Alaman / Rte d'Albi], 5 km WNW of Albi

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Albi

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Church Notes: 13th-15thC church built on the ruins of a Romanesque building -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00095500]: "Eglise gothique, édifiée à l'emplacement d'un édifice roman, présentant une tour clocher-porche fortifiée typique de l'Albigeois."

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is a 1878 detailed drawing of this object by Victor Ruprich-Robert (1820 - 1887) in the Musée d’Orsay [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/fonts-baptismaux-dans-une-eglise-de-castelnau-62907] [accessed 12 August 2024], the drawing is captioned: "Fonts baptismaux dans une église de Castelnau"; it shows details and measurements of the object. Described in the Dictionnaire des églises.. (1966- ) as a 15th century stoup ornamented with shields alternating with Gothic monograms of Christ and St. Mary, and crude heads; the latter are reminiscent of a Romanesque style. Noted and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00079232]: "Bénitier [...] 15e siècle". In Palissy [ref.: PM81000091]: "Bénitier [...] octogonal [...] Pierre [...] Ornementation (tête, écu, fleur de lys) [...] H = 28 ; d = 46 ; cuve ; pied : h = 50". Noted and illustrated in the web site of the Diocèse d'Albi [https://albi.catholique.fr/eglises-du-tarn/castelnau-de-levis-eglise-saint-barthelemy/] [accessed 12 August 2024]: "Bénitier de grès du XVe orné de monogrammes du Christ et de la Vierge, de quatre têtes de factures expressives et de fleurs de lys. Classé aux Monuments historiques en 1904." A September 2013 photograph by Thérèse Gaigé [cf. ImagesArea] shows a partial view of a disused vessel in the porch of the church; it looks very much like a tub-shaped basin of a baptismal font, one side of the upper rim damaged probably by a metal anchoring of an old font that split the stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.9389, 2.08306

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 56′ 20.04″ N, 2° 4′ 59.02″ E

UTM: 31T 426405 4865487

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (inside rim): 31 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 45 cm*

Basin Depth: 21 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Victor Ruprich-Robert

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the basin sides

Inscription Text: [monograms of Christ and Mary]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2024-08-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2024-08-11 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.