Colmars-les-Alpes
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église de style gothique provençal (entre l'art roman et gothique) date du 17° siècle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Celeda, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2020 by Celeda [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colmars_les_Alpes,_église_Saint_Martin.jpg] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the 19thC replacement font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1993 phototype argentique [04040397ZA] by Odeile de Pierrefeu, in Mémoire [ref.: MHR93_04040397ZA] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHR93_04040397ZA] [accessed 5 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10176COL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin à Colmars
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Grand Rue, 04370 Colmars, France
Country Name: France
Location: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: Located off the D908, about 60 km NW of Nice
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Digne
Century and Period: 16th century,
Church Notes: 16thC church destroyed by the 1672 fire; re-built 1680-1696 -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080372]: "Première église du début 16e siècle, détruite par un incendie en 1672. Reconstruction décidée en 1680, achevée en 1696. Pendant la même période, renforcement des fortifications par l'ingénieur Niquet. Eglise conçue comme un élément fortifié de la ville et clocher carré imbriqué dans un bastion de l'enceinte."
The destruction by fire of the baptismal font at Colmars-les-Alpes on 9 August 1672 was recorded by Mgr. Villeserin, the Bishop of Digne, and witness of the actual fire. Villeserin narrates that the fire was so terrible that even the baptismal font, made of a strong and thick stone, were reduced to cinders ["le feu avoit esté si violent que les fonts-baptismaux, qui étoyent faits d'une pierre fort dure et fort épaisse, étoyent réduits en cendres"] [source: text extracted from M.Z. Isnard's 'Récit de l'incendie de Colmars en l'Evêché de Senez le 8 Août de 1672', in the Archives Départementales de Digne, C110, transcribed by Christine Rathgeber in her 'Histoire de Colmars', in 'L'Echo des Ramparts', no. 3 (July 1999) -- http://jcfvc.chez.tiscali.fr/colmars.htm]. The replacement font is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM04001623] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM04001623] [accessed 5 Fabrusry 2023] as a metal font of the 19th century, and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: MHR93_04040397ZA] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHR93_04040397ZA] [accessed 5 February 2023]: a roughly cylindrical basin with a conical top with a cross finial [NB:this new font may have been installed in the new church built after the fire].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
44.180972,
6.626556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
44° 10′ 51.5″ N,
6° 37′ 35.6″ E
UTM: 32T 310289 4894713
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
