Luz-Saint-Sauveur No. 3 / De Lus / De Luso / Guilhermi Etzii de Lunis / Lus e Sent Sauvaire / Luus

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Christ - monogram - IHS

Scene Description: on the second panel from the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

Inscription - date - 1589

Scene Description: in the fiftrh and sixth panels from the left: "15" / "89"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

Virgin Mary - monogram

Scene Description: on the fourth panel from the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - 5-petal - in a circle - 2

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: two rows, forming a cartouche-like space

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all over the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Latin - anchored

Scene Description: on the third panel from the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - heart - inverted

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - key - two crossed keys - with upside-down vertical sword

Scene Description: on the left-most panel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05050LUZ

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-André

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 65120 Luz-Saint-Sauveur, France

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D918-D921 crossroads, NE of Cauterets, 19 km S of Argelès-Gazost, itself 13 km S of Lourdes

Historical Region: Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Located in what is now the church museum

Date: 1589

Century and Period: 16th century(late) [composite stoup], Late Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: see one other similar stoup listed this church

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the parish priest and the museum minder for their help with accessing the objects there

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-: III A 83-84 ) mentions several stoups in this church, one of them, "le plus intéressant", being a small polygonal basin dated 1589. On-site notes: this bain, which stands on a borrowed pedestal base, is now part of a collection of liturgical objects gathered in the museum mounted inside the church; it actually has nine sides, although, at first sight it appears octagonal; six of the sides are ornamented, the other three are blank. From L to R: 1)cross keys and sword; 2)Christ's monogram; 3)ancrée Latin cross; 4)Marian monogram; 5)"15" [first part of the date]; 6)"89" [last part of the date]. The underbowl has concave ribbed pattern. The upper capital of the base has several motifs and symbols: an inverted heart, two bands of saw-tooth motif, a pair of 5-petalled rosettes inscribed in circles, etc.; on a plain cylindrical column and a round-to-square lower base decorated with a roll moulding.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.871528, -0.003333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52′ 17.5″ N, 0° 0′ 12″ W

UTM: 30T 744770 4750905

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: three

Font Shape: enneagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: enneagonal (nine sides)

Rim Thickness: 6-9 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 48 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 63-66 cm

Basin Depth: 11 cm

Height of Basin Side: 17 cm

Basin Total Height: 32 cm

Height of Base: 72 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers and letters

Inscription Notes: two monograms, Christ's and Mary's: JHS and MA

Inscription Location: over four of the basin panels

Inscription Text: "JHS / MA / 15 / 89"

Inscription Source: On-site

REFERENCES

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