Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert / Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert / St-Guilhem-le-Désert / Abbaye de Gellone

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: The Saint-Guilhelm Cloister reconstructed in The Cloisters museum of the Metropolitan Museum in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York City

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2010 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_cloisters,_st._guilhem_cloister.JPG] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: The Saint-Guilhelm Cloister reconstructed in The Cloisters museum of the Metropolitan Museum in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York City -- showing the two baptismal fonts in it

Image Source: digital photograph 29 June 2017 by Beyond My Ken [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_The_Cloisters_Saint-Guilhelm_Cloister_from_southwest.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - cloister

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cloître de l'abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 April 2018 by Esculapio [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Guillhem_120342.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Scene Description: one of two baptismal fonts showing in the Saint-Guilhelm Cloister reconstructed in The Cloisters museum of the Metropolitan Museum in Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan, New York City

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 September 2010 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_cloisters,_st._guilhem_cloister.JPG] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Alexandre Du Mège: Abbaye de Gellone ou de St. Guilhem du désert (t. I, n° 8) "

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Intérieur de l'Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2010 by Neric34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur-2.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph September 2005 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Terracotta baptismal font placed on a support of stones masoned in the 17th century to form a baptismal font"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by Daniel Villafruela [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Guilhem_le_Désert-Abbaye_de_Gellone-Cuve_baptismale-20220428.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "In front of an old walled door, the baptismal font comes from a former parish church of the village, Saint-Barthélemy (St. Bartholomew). " [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by Daniel Villafruela [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Guilhem_le_Désert-Abbaye_de_Gellone-Fonts_baptismaux-20220428.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault, France - nef de l'abbatiale."

Image Source: digital photograph 28 October 2007 by Fabienkahn [Fabien Dany] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_abbatiale_gellone.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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view of font or stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "[...] At the beginning of the central aisle is a large stoup (turn of the 18th century), in red marble from Caunes)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 June 2012 by Daniel Villafruela [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Guilhem_le_Désert-Abbaye_de_Gellone-Nef-20120607.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10957GUI

Church/Chapel: Ancienne abbaye bénédictine de Gellone / Abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert [originally from the disappeared Eglise Saint-Barthélémy / Saint-Laurent?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Batholomew

Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the abbey] Pl. de la Liberté, 34150 Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France -- Tel.: +33 7 53 07 49 68

Country Name: France

Location: Hérault, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off [W] the D4 [aka rue de Guillaume d'Orange], in the Gellone valley, 30 km NW of Montpellier

Ecclesiastic Region: [originally in the Diocèse de Lodève]

Font Location in Church: In a niche of the N aisle, W end

Century and Period: 17th century[composite font], Baroque [composite]

Cognate Fonts: [NB: one-of? no other fonts of this type noted in or listed for the area]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com,and to Pol herman for their photographs of this font and their help in documenting it

Church Notes: abbey found ca. 804; became parochial after the Revolution -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103690] [NB: part of this abbey cloister was moved and reconstructed in The Cloister, New York (USA)]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Mobilier de France database [www.mobilier-de-france.org] lists a clay (?) baptismal font in the abbaye de Gellone; the object, which measures 95 cm in height and 92 cm in diametre, is believed to be originally from the église Saint-Laurent [NB: other sources give its origin as the disappeared parish church of Saint-Barthélémy]. The entry in Palissy [ref.: IM34001263] notes: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Terre cuite [...] Cuve qui proviendrait de l'église Saint-Laurent [...] H = 95 ; d = 92" [no date given in the entry]. This font is almost cylindrical, tapering slightly towards the centre, and is decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim; one of the sides has an indentation which may be an anchoring place for the cover hardware; the lower half is covered in whitewash.. [NB: in the nave of the abbey church is a holy-water stoup -some sources call it font- not listed in this Index on account of its 18th-century date -- listed in Palissy [ref.: PM34002959] gives 92 and 92 cm as the measurements and the font date as 1631, but the basin bein earlier. [NB: odd Palissy listing; it appears that the 1631 date in the listing is only for the base, the basin being of an earlier date]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.73397, 3.549265

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 44' 2.3" N, 3° 32' 57.4" E

UTM: 31T 544233 4842473

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: ceramic, clay?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM34001263]