Provins No. 2

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 2

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3

design element - motifs - rope - diagonal

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design element - motifs or symbols - varied

Scene Description: many (sixteen?), each in a little frame, below the upper rim

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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

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design element - patterns - striated - diagonal

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04735PRO
Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Croix [orig. from a church destroyed in the Revolution]
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: 1 rue des Jacobins, 77160 Provins, France -- Tel.: +33 1 60 58 55 40
Country Name: France
Location: Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located SE of Paris on the D408, about 50 km E of Melun. There is another medieval decorated fonts at St-Loup-de-Naud, 8 km SW of Provins.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mme Anne Marzin, conservateur of the Archives de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Provins, and the friendly and tenacious staff at the Mairie de Provins for their help in documenting this font while the church was closed for renovations at the time of our visit
Church Notes: The Sainte-Croix church which houses the font is at present closed to the public (June 2000).
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM77001393] as a holy-water stoup of the 16th century. An interesting stoup the identity of which has been the object of some conjecture and disagreement; it is cylindrical and rather narrow; the upper 2/3, the basin, have four registers of ornamentation: 1)at the rim, a narrow band with a series of small frames containing varied motifs such as heads, animals, symbols, etc.; 2)a broad band of striated pattern, like forward slashes, grouped in between diagonal rope mouldings; 3)a narrow band, apparently blank; 4)a broad band of diagonal flutted pattern, in the opposite direction of the one in 2 above. The lower 1/3 of the object is also cylindrical, though a little narrower, and ornamented with two arcades of round arches. Lasteyrie (1926-1927) states that this is a holy-water stoup -and not a baptismal font as others have generally claimed- and that the dating previously attributed to it (15th-16th century) should be reconsidered; he favours a date in the reign of king Philip II Augustus, i.e., 1180-1223. Lasteyrie (ibid.) also claims that this object comes from a church [un-named] destroyed during the Revolution. Two later (18th-century) stoups in this church are also listed in Palissy [ref.: PM77001405].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.561134, 3.298495
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 33′ 40.08″ N, 3° 17′ 54.58″ E
UTM: 31U 522024 5378714

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927