Saint-Savin-de-Lavedan No. 3 / Saint-Savin-en-Lavedan / Santi Savini di Bigorra / Santi Savini Levitanensis
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05104SAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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, S side
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original 4th-5thC monastery raided by the Sarracens; re-built by Charlemagne; destroyed in 841 by the Normans; re-built in 945; 11thC Eglise Saint-Jean-de-Saint-Savin was parish church for the area
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM65000570] as a font of the 12th century with a 18th-century cover. On-site notes: a large round font, totally plain, dated to the 12th century; it is one of those massive cauldron-like affairs, except that the lower 1/3 of the basin has been trimmed to give it some shape; a thin groove has also run around the upper basin side to frame the rim. The font cover is a wooden polygonal armoire made of tall vertical panels crowned with a filigree and cross finial. [NB: the wooden frame is in dire need of repairs and reinforcement].
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
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 15-16 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 103 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 132 cm* / 130 cm**
Basin Depth: 35 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm*
Height of Base: 25 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 74 cm* / 80 cm**
Notes on Measurements: *BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: PM65000570] [NB: stepped basin, but all one block]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: rim-buffet type [cf. Font notes]