Tours No. 3

Results: 5 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06164TOU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1522
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Sainte-Radegonde
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Radegund [aka Radegunda, Radegunde]
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the abbaye de Marmoutier
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey founded 372; dissolved during the Revolution, sold and became a military hospital thereafter; dismantled ca. 1800; partly re-built by the Sœurs du Sacré-Cœur in the 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098129]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the abbey of Marmoutier] 72 Quai de Marmoutier, 37100 Tours, France -- Tel.: +33 2 47 21 61 88
Site Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The church of Sainte-Radegonde is located on rue Saint-Gatien, Tours
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval abbey church here)
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 1358) as a round mounted holy-water stoup made of white marble and originally from the Abbaye de Marmoutier, now in the nave of Sainte-Radegonde at Tours. The shallow basin is ornamented on the outside with scrolls and putti; the slender spindle-shaped shaft of the base has large-leaf motif; the lower base is shaped like a truncated pyramid, and ornamented with the date 1522, the letters MG and the coat-of-arms of Mathieu Gauthier, abbot of Marmoutier between 1512 and 1537. [NB: this Abbaye de Marmoutier is the one located near Tours, in Indre-et-Loire, not to be mistaken with its homonym in Bas-Rhin, Alsace; we have no recorded medieval font for the former; for the fonts at Marmoutier, Alsace, see Index entry]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 327764 5252482
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.403056, 0.717222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 24′ 11″ N, 0° 43′ 2″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (white)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the lower base
Inscription Text: "MG" "1522"
Inscription Notes: the initials of abbot Mathieu Gauthier and the date of the stoup
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 2: 1358)

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 2, p. 1358