Sajas

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - 2

Scene Description: on a panel

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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B02: symbol - cross - Greek - fleurdelisée

Scene Description: on a panel

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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B03: symbol - star - 6-point - Star of David? - triquetra inscribed in a circle in the centre

Scene Description: on a panel

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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B04: symbol - circle - with vertical diameter (chrismon?)

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for comment by Miquel (1997)]

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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B05: unidentified

Scene Description: ["rosette en spirale"?] [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes; Photograph [2004?]

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B06: symbol - star - 5-point

Scene Description: with a small six-petal rosette at either side

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes; Photograph [2004?]

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B07: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - 2

Scene Description: one on either side of a 5-point star

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes; Photograph [2004?]

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B08: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: a large one, on one of the panels -- Photograph [2004?]

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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B09: design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: a little one, on one of the panels

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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symbol - varied

Scene Description: a drawing in Miquel [1997] of all the motifs and symbols on this font

Image Source: C. Miquel (1997: fig. 31)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2012 by pierre [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sajas1.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover is off the font, at the back

Image Source: A. Costes, Archives Municipales, Rieumes

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09521SAJ

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 31370 Sajas, France

Country Name: France

Location: Haute-Garonne, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Rieumes, 32 km SW of Muret, 52 km SE of Toulouse

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Toulouse [formerly Diocèse de Rieux]

Historical Region: Le Savès

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S chapel

Date: ca. 1319?

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

Cognate Fonts: Related fonts in the area at Mauran, St-Ferréol, Cazères

Church Notes: 13thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00094481]: "Eglise sans doute du 13e siècle, ayant subi de nombreuses réparations entre 1878 et 1882, en particulier le clocher en 1896, le porche et la façade latérale en 1882, la tribune intérieure en 1887. Le clocher est fortifié".

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Described and ilustrated in Mesplé (1970) who describes the ornamentation [cf. Miquel infra] and relates the general style and decor to the font at Saint-Ferréol, in the same area. Mesplé's dating to ca. 1319 is based on the inscription that dates the font at Saint-Ferréol [cf. Index entry]. Described and illustrated in Miquel (1997: 36, 50-51 and fig. 31): octagonal mounted baptismal font of the first quarter of the 14th century, probably ca. 1319; the sides of the basin are vertical, each of the eight panels decorated with one or several motifs: 1)two fleur-de-lys; 2)Greek cross, fleurdelisée; 3)six-point star with a triquetra inscribed in a circle inside it; 4)circle with a vertical line [NB: a suggestion is made in Miquel (ibid.) that this symbol may represent a simplified chrismon: "le cercle barré verticalement peut être la représentation d'un chrisme simplifié à l'extrême", and that at the nearby church a Bazus-Aure, "le chrisme se réduit à un simple cercle", a practice, Miquel (ibid.) continues, "très comune dans le Comminges" -- note that Mesplé does not identify it as a chrismon, but as "un circle divisé en deux parties par un diamètre vertical"]; 5)[unknown ["rosette an spirale"?]; 6)large five-point star in the centre with a six-petal rosette to either side; 7)large six-petal rosette inscribed in a circle; 8)small six-petal rosette inscribed in a circle; the rounded underbowl is plain. The basin is raised on a quadrangular pedestal with hollowed angles. A flat and plain wooden lid, modern, covers the font. There are clear signs of repair to several areas of the basin sides. [NB: the illustration in Miquel -fig. 30- labelled as "Sajas" is actually a photograph of the font at Rieumes]. This type of octagonal mounted font is not uncommon in the area and Miquel names the ones at Mauran, St-Ferréol, Cazères as related in general design. [We are grateful to Alain Costes, of the Archives Municipales, Rieumes, for his information on, and photograph of this font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 339717 4804638

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm

Notes on Measurements: Mesplé (1970: 136)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

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

Miquel, Caroline, "Monuments et mobilier de la période mediévale du canton de Rieumes (Haute-Garonne)", 1997, 12, Archéo en Saves, 1997, pp. 33-65; r["References"]