Saint-Savin-de-Lavedan No. 2 / Saint-Savin-en-Lavedan / Santi Savini di Bigorra / Santi Savini Levitanensis

Results: 10 records

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope - with loops

Scene Description: with a loop at each arris of the basin sides

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

view of stoup in context

Scene Description: at the west entranceway, north side

Image Source: photograph taken 9 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05103SAV

Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Savin de Lavedan

Church Patron Saints: St. Savin

Church Location: 1 Place du Castet, 65400 Saint-Savin, France -- Tel.: +33 5 62 97 02 23

Country Name: France

Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off D13, 15 km down the N21 Lourdes to Cauterets

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes

Historical Region: La Bigorre

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

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM65000568]: "Cuve d'un seul bloc à dix pans coupés entouré par un cordon sculpté et reposant sur un bourelet circulaire. La décoration sculptée est faite d'un cordon en relief au milieu de la cuve et décoré de boucles à l'aplomb des arêtes. La base est un élément de construction antique en marbre blanc à double moulure en gradin sur une face. La forme très particulière de la cuve, dont les pans sont alternativement convexes et concaves, évoquent l'art décoratif oriental [...] 13e siècle (?) [...] La tradition rapporte que cette cuve aurait été apportée en France de Saragosse après la reconquète par les croisés au 12e siècle." On-site notes: limestone basin of a holy-water stoup, now raised on a modern square stone pillar; it is polylobed in shape (five lobes) and made of limestone (?). The basin sides are vertical and there is a roll-moulding making up the lip of the upper rim; there is also a thinner rope motif, with a loop at the arris of each basin side, along the lower side of the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.980556, -0.089444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 58′ 50″ N, 0° 5′ 22″ W

UTM: 30T 737188 4762870

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone? / marble?

Font Shape: polylobed (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: polylobed

Basin Exterior Shape: polylobed

Rim Thickness: 7-8 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 46-47 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 63-64 cm*

Basin Depth: 22 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

Height of Base: 70 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 120 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site