Chartres No. 2

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view of church exterior - east view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2011 by Olvr [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chartres_-_Église_Saint-Martin-au-Val_vue_arriere.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church exterior - east view

Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, ensemble est (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, ensemble est (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00000718] of an undated [pre-1905] B&W photograph by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin-au-Val_ensemble_est_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - west view

Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, façade ouest (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, façade ouest (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00000717] of an undated [pre-1905] B&W photograph by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin-au-Val_façade_ouest_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - capital

[NB: is this the hollowed-out capital used as holy-water stoup?]
Scene Description: [NB: is this the hollowed-out capital used as holy-water stoup?]
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004848] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Eglise,_chapiteau_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004848.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - chapel - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004857] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle_-_Chapiteau_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004857.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - chapel - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau historié."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau historié."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004858] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle_-_Chapiteau_historié_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004858.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - chapel - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau historié."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle [...] Chapiteau historié."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004859] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle_-_Chapiteau_historié_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004859.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle. Crypte : Base d'un pilier."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle. Crypte : Base d'un pilier."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004840] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle._Crypte_-_Base_d'un_pilier_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004840.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle. Crypte : Appareil d'un mur mérovingien."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle. Crypte : Appareil d'un mur mérovingien."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004843] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle._Crypte_-_Appareil_d'un_mur_mérovingien_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004841.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - chapel - detail

Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle : Chapiteaux historiés."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hôpital Saint-Brice [...] Chapelle : Chapiteaux historiés."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00004843] of a 1893 B&W photograph by Paul Robert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hôpital_Saint-Brice_-_Chapelle_-_Chapiteaux_historiés_-_Chartres_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00004843.jpg)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - looking west

Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, vue intérieure de la nef vers l'entrée (sans date), Chartres Eure-et-Loir (France)."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, vue intérieure de la nef vers l'entrée (sans date), Chartres Eure-et-Loir (France)."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00000720] of an undated [pre-1905] B&W photograph by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin-au-Val_vue_intérieure_de_la_nef_vers_l'entrée_(sans_date)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, vue intérieure de la nef vers le chœur (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martin-au-Val, vue intérieure de la nef vers le chœur (sans date), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir (France)."
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Image Source: digital image [Mémoire: APMH00000719] of an undated [pre-1905] B&W photograph by Séraphin-Médéric Mieusement [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin-au-Val_vue_intérieure_de_la_nef_vers_le_choeur_(sans_date)_Chartres_Eure-et-Loir_(France).jpg] [accessed 20 December 2020]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04698CHA
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital, Gallo-Roman
Font Century and Period/Style: 4th - 6th century[re-cycled], Gallo-Roman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Église Collégiale Saint-Martin-au-Val
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: The Centre Chartraine has a WEB site with information on this former Benedictine abbey, now turned into a hospice [cf. http://ariadne.org/centrechartraine/abbeys/st-martin/st-martin.html ] [NB: the site is at present, spring 2001, "undr konstrukson"]. The church dates from 1128, but it is not known whether this stoup was converted for use at that time. The earliest parts of the crypt here have been dated to the 11thC -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097001]: "Eglise dite autrefois église Saint-Martin-au-Val"
Church Address: 2 Rue Georges Brassens / Rue Saint-Martin au Val, 28000 Chartres, France
Site Location: Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D935, just S of the Gallo-Roman sanctuary, on the N banks of the river Eure, S of the historical centre of Chartres. The church is located in the ancien hôpital Saint-Brice
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Chartres
Additional Comments: recycled stoup (Gallo-Roman capital converted for use as a holy-water stoup)
Font Notes:
Described in Lasteyrie (1929) as a Gallo-Roman capital converted for use as a holy-water stoup. [cf. ImagesArea Image no. 0201220020 -- is this the stoup noted in Lasteyrie?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 388634 5366033
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.43759, 1.494275
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 26′ 15.32″ N, 1° 29′ 39.39″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: capital

REFERENCES

  • Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 711