Salies-du-Salat / Salias de Salat / Salies

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view of font and cover

Font image
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human figure - male - head - bearded

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

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

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

framing the decorative band all a round
Scene Description: framing the decorative band all a round
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view of church exterior - portal

the new church in which the font is now located
Scene Description: the new church in which the font is now located
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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 - northwest 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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Villafriuela, 2014
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]
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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "The church Our Lady, seen from the boulevard Jean Jaurès."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church Our Lady, seen from the boulevard Jean Jaurès."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Daniel Villafriuela, 2014
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view of font and cover in context

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design element - architectural - column - 5

a central shaft with four angle colonnettes
Scene Description: a central shaft with four angle colonnettes
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information

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information

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04153SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2001-07-07
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Nouvelle église paroissiale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): [old church Notre-Dame-de-la-Pitié dedicated to St. Mary -- new church St. Germanus of Auxerre?]
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."
Church Address: 27 rue de L Hôtel de ville / 523 boulevard des Thermes, 31260 Salies-du-Salat, France -- Tel.: +33 9 75 30 80 45
Site Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France, Europe
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 Notes:
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

UTM: 31T 334068 4774543
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.105448, 0.960774
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 6′ 19.61″ N, 0° 57′ 38.78″ E

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-, III A 113