Martres-Tolosane No. 1
Results: 8 records
view of font - upper view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian de Martres-Tolosane. La cuve baptismale"
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Image Source: digital photograph 7 December 2019 by Patrice Bon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane_19.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian Martres-Tolosane"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pradigue, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2012 by Pradigue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_Martres-Tolosane_2012_pradigue_04.JPG] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian de Martres-Tolosane. Chapelle de saint Jean le Baptiste"
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Image Source: digital photograph 7 December 2019 by Patrice Bon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane_16.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian de Martres-Tolosane. Chapelle de saint Jean le Baptiste"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 December 2019 by Patrice Bon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane_05.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of church interior - sarcophagus
![Source caption: "Sarcophage paléochrétien décoré de fleur avec au centre un chrisme" -- one of the Eraly Christian sarcophagi in this church -- this is NOT the one used as baptismal font for a time [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240212010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Sarcophage paléochrétien décoré de fleur avec au centre un chrisme" -- one of the Eraly Christian sarcophagi in this church -- this is NOT the one used as baptismal font for a time [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 7 December 2019 by Patrice Bon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane_52.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of church interior - Chapelle de saint Vidian - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian Martres-Tolosane"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pradigue, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2012 by Pradigue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_Martres-Tolosane_2012_pradigue_01.JPG] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Vidian de Martres-Tolosane. Le bénitier en marbre noir marbré de blanc."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 December 2019 by Patrice Bon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane_03.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2024]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04145MAR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Vidian de Martres-Tolosane
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Vidian? [aka Vivien d'Aliscans?] [Vivien? / Viviano? 28 August?]
Church Notes: listed church in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094377]: "Edifice du 14e siècle conservant des parties plus anciennes. Il date de la fondation du prieuré dont il ne reste que des fragments. L'église a été remaniée à la fin du 13e ou au début du 14e siècle"
Church Address: 2 Rue du Vieux Martres, 31220 Martres-Tolosane, France
Site Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D817, inside the 'périphérique' D108, S of the E80, 7 km W of Cazères, 60 km SW of Toulouse
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Toulouse
Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées
Font Notes:
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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as the base of a stoup: a square pedestal ornamented on its sides with Romanesque columns and trefoil Gothic arches [NB: we have not been able to locate any further information on this piece or an image of it [cf, ImagesArea for a modern stoup in black-and-white marble in this church] -- could it be one of the several pieces mentioned in Jean Boube's Chapiteaux de l'Antiquité tardive et du Haut Moyen Age dans le Comminges et le Toulousain [https://www.persee.fr/doc/palla_0031-0387_1986_hos_1_1_1191] [accessed 12 February 2024], p. 424ff?]]. The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Vidian_de_Martres-Tolosane#cite_note-2] [accessed 12 February 2024]. The present baptismal font consists of a wide but shallow basin, raised on a a plain pedestal base; it appears modern. [cf. BSI entry Martres-Tolosane No. 2 for the sarcophagus used as font for some time]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 338412 4784883
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.19944, 1.01111
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 11′ 57.98″ N, 1° 0′ 40″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, III A 85