Salon-de-Provence No. 2 / Villa Salone

Results: 8 records

Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - with grill

Scene Description: on the front side of the basin -- the size of Lawrence's symbol somewhere between a large fly-swatter and a small cooking grill

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: quatrefoiled in shape

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: around the upper side, below the rim

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - façade and portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2011 by Georges Seguin (Okki) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salon-de-Provence_20111112_20.jpg] [accessed 13 March 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: la Collégiale Saint-Laurent in the centre of the image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2007 by Jjpetite [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salon-de-Provence.JPG] [accessed 13 March 2016]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of font

Scene Description: truly chalice-shaped

Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05115SAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ancienne collégiale Saint-Laurent [orig. from the 11th cent. extramural church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: 198 Rue des Jardins, 13300 Salon-de-Provence, France -- Tel.: +33 4 40 56 06 40

Country Name: France

Location: Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Located about 45 kms NNW of Marseile -- the church is located in the centre of town, between the Boulevard David (N) and Square Jean-XXIII (S)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Aix-en-Provence - Arles

Historical Region: Provence

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic

Church Notes: original church 11thC; re-built 13thC but completed 15thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081461]

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM13000896] as a stone font of the 14th century: "Selon la tradition, ces fonts auraient été donnés à l'église par l'empereur Charlemagne." [cf. infra] On-site notes: no trace found of the Carolingian font said to exist -or have existed- in this church. Instead we found a tetra-lobed chalice-shaped baptismal font of the 13th century; it has a band or foliage ornamentation around the upper rim side; on the front it has the figure of St. Laurence, dressed as a monk, tonsured anbd holding a book in his left hand; in the right hand he holds up a small grill, the symbol of his martyrdom. The base has a flat but wide ring and the splayed lower base has ribbed pattern ornamentation. There is a flat wooden cover hinged at about 1/3 from the back. The font appears to be in very good shape, with evidence of repairs (?) on the lower underbowl.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.6436, 5.09696

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 38′ 36.96″ N, 5° 5′ 49.06″ E

UTM: 31T 669127 4834426

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: quatrefoiled (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoiled

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled

Drainage Notes: the drain is sealed now; no lining

Rim Thickness: 9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 89-91 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 100-108 cm* / 100 cm**

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 75 cm*

Height of Base: 36 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 111 cm* / 110 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI [on-site] / ** Palissy [ref.: PM13000896]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]