Langeais
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Langeais (Indre-et-Loire, France), bénitier+ -- the medieval font, now used as holy-water stoup
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Langeais (Indre-et-Loire, France), fonts baptismaux" -- the later font
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph [80l063532] 5 August 2021 by Franck Genestoux, in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L063532] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L063532] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: only one of the three or four original heads is recognisable as human now
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph [80l063532] 5 August 2021 by Franck Genestoux, in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L063532] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L063532] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - frieze - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Langeais (Indre-et-Loire, France) - Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste - Élément subsistant d'une frise d'époque caroligienne"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benjamin Smith, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 20 August 2022 by Benjamin Smith [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langeais_-_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Frise_carolingienne.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Langeais"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anual, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2019 by Anual [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Langeais_2019An002.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Langeais."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duch.seb, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2011 by Duch.seb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Langeais_9.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
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Image Source: digital photograph August 2008 by Rensi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Jean-Baptiste_in_Langeais1.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Duch.seb, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2011 by Duch.seb [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_de_Langeais.jpg] [accessed 30 January 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06183LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [composite font], Late Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Jean Baptiste de Langeais
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: original basilica church 10thC; modified 11th-12th, 15th, 19thC -- listed church in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097796]: "12e siècle ; 15e siècle ; 19e siècle"
Church Address: 2-6 Rue Dunois, 37130 Langeais, France
Site Location: Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the D57-D952-D953, on the N bank of the Loire, about 22 km ESE of Tours
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tours
Historical Region: Centre
Additional Comments: bought and sold font: sold during the Revolution; bought back by a priest who returned it to the parish / re-cycled font (now used as holy-water stoup)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire (2001, v. 1: 661) as the bucket-shaped basin of a 15th-century baptismal font; there were three or four heads ornamenting the upper basin sides, only one of which has retained any recognisable traits. This same source informs that the basin was sold during the French Revolution and later used outdoors, which accounts for the wear and tear; it was later acquired by a priest who offered it back to the church. [NB: the dating in the source is given as 15th century; the object, however, is quite similar to other such basins found in this area dating to the 11th through the 13th centuries]. The square pedestal base is of a later date, probably modern. There is another font here, a later one, of dark marble, the one in use, while the medieval one is now used as holy-water stoup.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.326100, 0.406000
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 19' 34.0" N, 0° 24' 21.6" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Le Patrimoine des communes d'Indre-et-Loire, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 1, p. 661