Salies-du-Salat / Salias de Salat / Salies

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design element - architectural - column - 5

Scene Description: a central shaft with four angle colonnettes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: framing the decorative band all a round

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: between foliage/floral motifs -- notice the reinforcing metal belt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: between two foliage motifs -- notice the repair to the large diagonal crack, and the reinforcing metal belt

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - portal

Scene Description: the new church in which the font is now located

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "Ruins of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, 14th century, destroyed in the same time as the castle of the Counts of Comminges which she was the chapel."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruins of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, 14th century, destroyed in the same time as the castle of the Counts of Comminges which she was the chapel."

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church Our Lady, seen from the boulevard Jean Jaurès."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2014 by Daniel Villafriuela [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salies_du_Salat-Boulevard_Jean_Jaurès-20140423.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ruins of the Church of Our Lady of Mercy, 14th century, destroyed in the same time as the castle of the Counts of Comminges which she was the chapel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 2014 by Daniel Villafriuela [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salies_du_Salat-Église_Notre_Dame_de_la_Pitié-20140423.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 7 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04153SAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Nouvelle église paroissiale

Church Patron Saints: [old church Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié dedicated to St. Mary -- new church St. Germanus of Auxerre?]

Church Location: 27 rue de L Hôtel de ville / 523 boulevard des Thermes, 31260 Salies-du-Salat, France -- Tel.: +33 9 75 30 80 45

Country Name: France

Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D13-D69 crossroads, 25 km SE of Saint-Gaudens, E of Tarbes, 70 kmSW of Toulouse

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges

Historical Region: Comminges, Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: 14thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094483]: "Chapelle du château des comtes de Comminges, située à l'intérieur de l'enceinte et détruite en même temps que le château. L'édifice était formé d'une nef rectangulaire. Sur le côté, grand portail gothique dont l'archivolte est formée de moulures toriques qui sont le prolongement de celles du jambage et en sont séparées par un cordon horizontal orné de feuillages servant de chapiteau à deux colonnettes. Dans l'église, chapiteaux et corbeilles sculptés. Sur la façade orientale, clocher-arcade roman couronné d'un galbe aigu. Il est percé de trois arcades en plein cintre disposées en triangle. Au début du 20e siècle, la chapelle conservait encore des traces de peinture."

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a octagonal Gothic baptismal font ornamented with a bearded head and large foliage motif. On-site notes: octagonal basin with rounded underbowl mounted on a square base made of a central shaft with four corner colonnettes linked by round arches. The upper rim of the basin has a plain reinforcement iron ring all around to reinforce the repairs to the cracked basin; the upper basin sides are ornamented with a band, each panel having a bearded head in the centre and a foliage/floral motif to the left and right of the head. The font is now located in the new church [dedicated to St-Germain?]. The floor around the base of the font is higher than the bottom of the font itself.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.105448, 0.960774

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 6′ 19.61″ N, 0° 57′ 38.78″ E

UTM: 31T 334068 4774543

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: unable to remove the wooden lid (appeared to be sealed )

Rim Thickness: 12-16 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 90-97 cm

Basin Total Height: 55 cm

Height of Base: 68 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 123 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 36 x 36 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: the height of the font is actually less with respect to the elevated platform which surrounds it, probably under one meter]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Notes: appears to be sealed or tightly fit with no handle to raise it; the cross finial may have served that purpose in the past but it is now loose and comes off.

REFERENCES

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