Tours No. 3

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: around the basin sides

BF01: human figure - putto

Scene Description: on the basin sides

LB01: coat of arms - Mathieu Gauthier, abbot of Marmoutier, 1512-1537

Scene Description: a/p identification in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001)

LB02: inscription

Scene Description: the letters MG (Mathieu Gauthier, abbot of Marmoutier, 1512-1537) and the date 1522

UB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaves around the shaft of the base

INFORMATION

FontID: 06164TOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Radegonde [orig. from the abbaye de Marmoutier]
Church Patron Saints: St. Radegund [aka Radegunda, Radegunde]
Country Name: France
Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located on rue Saint-Gatien, Tours
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: 1522
Century and Period: 16th century(early),
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]

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 Notes: the initials of abbot Mathieu Gauthier and the date of the stoup
Inscription Location: on the lower base
Inscription Text: "MG" "1522"
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