Salles-sur-Garonne / Sales / Salis

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animal - fish

Scene Description: on one of the basin panels, the rough side [NB: this and the previous motif may have been a later addition]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: on the left, shares a side with a Star of David on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: on the left, shares the panel with a Star of David on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: in the centre, shares the panel with a shield on the left and with a Star of David on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: on one of the basin panels

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped

Scene Description: on the right, shares the panel with a Maltese cross on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - boat

Scene Description: on one of the basin panels, the rough side [NB: this and the next motif may have been a later addition]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle

Scene Description: on the left, shares a panel with a quatrefoil motif on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese? - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: could be read also as quatrefoil motifs

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - patriarchal (Lorraine cross?) - 2

Scene Description: Mesplé identifies as Lorraine crosses (although the arms are higher, the usual position of the patriarchal cross)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - shield - emblem? - Diocese of Comminges?

Scene Description: (suggested identification by Mesplé); lightly incised, on the left, shares the panel with a 6-petal flower in the centre, and a Star of David on the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - star - star of David

Scene Description: on the right, shares the panel with a floral motif on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - star - star of David

Scene Description: on the right, shares a panel with a fleur-de-lis on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - star - star of David

Scene Description: on the right, shares the panel with a 6-petal flower in the centre, and a shield on the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: notice the damage resulting from the old metal cover staple

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: notice the damage resulting from the old metal cover staple

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L’image de Salles est inséparable de celle des deux platanes géants qui veillent sur l’église et qui sont protégés depuis le 15 octobre 1945 par décision préfectorale. Ces arbres dont l’âge peut être évalué à plus de trois siècles, sont déjà signalés en 1849 pour leur majesté. L'existence de l'église primitive de Sancti Petri de Salis est attestée en 1105. L’église actuelle peut être datée du XIVe dans ses structures de base. Les murs de la nef furent surélevés en 1730, et la voûte construite en 1860"

Image Source: digital photograph in Tourisme Volvestre [www.tourisme-volvestre.fr/uploads/tx_prestataires/Eglise-platanes.JPG] [accessed 29 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: No known cpyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05114SAL

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 31390 Salles-sur-Garonne, France

Country Name: France

Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D10, just SE of Carbonne, 26 km S of Muret, 55 km S of Toulouse

Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly in the Diocèse de Rieux]

Historical Region: Le Volvestre, Midi-Pyrénées

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel of the nave. on the south side

Date: ca. 1319?

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Gothic

Church Notes: Sancti Petri de Salis documented 1105; 12thC church was a priory of the Abbaye de Lézat; re-built 14thC; modified 1730, 1860

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Studied in Gabriel Manière's «Les fonts baptismaux de Cazères et de Salles-sur-Garonne», Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Midi de la France (t. XXXII, 1966, p. 65-69). Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM31000716]: "fonts baptismaux [...] calcaire (blanc) [...] 13e siècle". Described and illustrated in Mesplé (1970: 135-136) who dates the font to ca. 1319 based on the inscription on the font at St-Ferréol [cf. Index entry] which Mesplé identifies as cognate. Mesplé describes the iconographic program much along the lines followed below and points out the un-matching motif on the eighth side arguing that this sface may have been originally against the wall and therefore left unfinished by the carver, and that it was only finished when the font was moved to the centre of the baptistery [Mesplé (ibid.) has a similar suggestion for the second inscribed side on the font at St-Ferréol [cf. Index entry]. On-site notes: octagonal basin with short vertical sides and a long chamfer whose eight sides follow those of the upper basin. It is raised on a cylindrical pedestal base. The sides of the basin are ornamented with two well-executed high-relief motifs per panel, except the last one which has a crude boat (?) and a fish incised on it. It is quite likely that this last side was not finished originally because the font may have been intended to go against a wall or the work was stopped by other reasons [this suggestion was confirmed by Mesplé's observation -cf. supra- along the same lines]. Order of the motifs on the basin sides [starting with the first motif after the rough side, left to right]: side 1): six-petal rosette and star of David; side 2): two quatrefoil windows or crosses; side 3): fleur-de-lis and star of David; side 4): two patriarchal crosses; side 5): two six-point stars; side 6): Maltese cross and quatrefoil window; side 7): shield with quatrefoil window, six-point star and star of David; side 8) (rough side): incised boat and fish. There is damage to the upper rim of the basin at opposite ends, a sign of forceful removal of the lid hinges.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.271366, 1.172728

UTM: 31T 352362 4792805

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (beige)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Rim Thickness: 10-15 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 93-101 cm* / 92 cm**

Basin Depth: 32 cm*

Basin Total Height: 37 cm*

Height of Base: 42 cm*

Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 37 x 19.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Mesplée (1970: 135)

REFERENCES

Mesplé, Paul, "Fonts baptismaux commingeois du XIVe siècle", 83, 2-3, Revue de Comminges (Pyrénées Centrales), 1970, pp. 133-140; r["References"]