Angers No. 4
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view of church exterior - cloister - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2011 by Selbymay [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angers_-_Abbaye_Toussaint_(2).jpg] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the former abbey building now houses the Galerie David d'Angers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Selbymay, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2011 by Selbymay [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angers_-_Abbaye_Toussaint_(1).jpg] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: the former abbey building now houses the Galerie David d'Angers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Als33120, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 October 2015 by Als33120 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angers,_Galerie_David_D'Angers.JPG] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of church interior - lavabo or piscina?
Scene Description: a possible lavabo or piscina from the medieval church; it has a drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2020 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galerie_David_d'Angers_010.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of church interior - lavabo or piscina?
Scene Description: a possible lavabo or piscina from the medieval church; it has a drain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 July 2020 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galerie_David_d'Angers_010.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye Toussaint d'Angers"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2020 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Toussaint_d'Angers_08_2020.jpg] [accessed 28 September 2020]
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view of object in context
![is this what Parker described in his "Notes..." [cf. FontNotes]? -- KADOC-KU Leuven informs: "This photo was taken by the stained-glass artist and photographer Joseph Casier during a visit with the Guild of the Highschool for Arts Sint-Lucas in Ghent." [Joseph Casier (1824-1914)]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211117022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: is this what Parker described in his "Notes..." [cf. FontNotes]? -- KADOC-KU Leuven informs: "This photo was taken by the stained-glass artist and photographer Joseph Casier during a visit with the Guild of the Highschool for Arts Sint-Lucas in Ghent." [Joseph Casier (1824-1914)]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KADOC-KU Leuven. Audiovisual archives of the Family Casier, 2021
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by Joseph Casier, in the KADOC-KU Leuven. Audiovisual archives of the Family Casier, 2021
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from KADOC (e-mail of 17 Movember 2021)
INFORMATION
FontID: 14260ANG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Abbaye Toussaint d'Angers / Ancienne Abbatiale Toussaint [in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin ["Notre Dame"; earlier dedication to St. Peter]
Church Location: 7-5 boulevard du Maréchal Foch, 49100 Angers, France
Country Name: France
Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D523, on the N banks of the Loire river, 60-70 km ENE of Nantes. The ruins of the abbey are located at the confluence of rue d'Alsace and Blvd Maréchal Foch, SE of the Jardin du Mail
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the ruined church in 1852, in the N transept
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th - 16th century, Gothic? / Late Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: cf. other French double fonts of the NW
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this object. We are also grateful to Patricia Quaghebeur and the KADOC-KU Leuven. Audiovisual archives of the Family Casier for their photograph by Joseph Casier
Church Notes: abbey founded 1040 as "elemosinaria Omnorum Sanctorum"; became Augustinian [regular canons] in 1108; re-built mid-13thC; refurbished in 1984 to house the "Galerie David d'Angers" -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108864]
Font Notes:
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In a description of the ruins of the 13th-century Abbaye Toussaint of Angers, Parker (1852) writes: "There is a curious double font, oblong, with two basins, carried on an arcade of early-French character. It stands in the north transept, and is said not to have been moved". [NB: the church is 13th-century ["now belonging to the museum", in Parker (1852)], but most French double-fonts are usually of a later date, usually the 15th or 16th century, for example those in Finistère (e.g., Guimiliau)]. Pol Herman in a communication with BSI (e-mail of 16 November 2021) informs of his discovery of "an old picture (1899) of a baptismal font, in the digital inventory of the University of Leuven [...] Guild of St. Thomas and St. Luke, Study Trip to the Loire Valley (France), 4-16 September 1899 : baptismal font in the dilapidated All Saints' Church in Angers [...] This church was destroyed in 1810." [NB: an image [poor resolution] of the Leuven repository file is attached; it shows a stone object of rectangular outer shape with two round(?) basins in it]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.46947, -0.54907
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 28′ 10.09″ N, 0° 32′ 56.65″ W
UTM: 30T 684690 5260249
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
REFERENCES
Parker, John Henry, "Notes made during a Tour in the West of France", XXXIV, Archaeologia, 1852, pp. 273-295; p. 280