Sorde l'Abbaye

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Scene Description: on the mosaics

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Scene Description: on the mosaics

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Image Source: field notes taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the baptismal well with a drain

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the water-holding well

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: maquette of the abbey; located near the baptismal font

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view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: the mosaics area behind the altar

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Scene Description: the north apse

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Scene Description: the north apse; north-side

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Scene Description: the north apse; north-side capital

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Scene Description: capital in the nord apse

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Scene Description: capital in the nord apse

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Scene Description: capital in the nord apse

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Scene Description: capital in the nord apse

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Scene Description: the south apse; capital

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Scene Description: the south apse; capital

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Scene Description: the south apse; capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Scene Description: the south apse; capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Scene Description: the south apse; capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the south apse; capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the south apse; capital

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the south apse; capital

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view of church interior - mosaic

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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view of church interior - nave - east end - looking south

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2008 by Montserrat Estela

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2008 by Montserrat Estela

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2008 by Montserrat Estela

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

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view of font and cover in context

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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 15543SOR

Church/Chapel: Ancienne église de l'abbaye bénédictine Saint-Jean-Baptiste / Eglise paroissiale

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Country Name: France

Location: Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Located on the D29, 5 km ESE of Peyrehorade, arrondissement de Dax

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Aire et Dax

Historical Region: Aquitaine / Pays d'Orthe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, for her photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: baptismal font consisting of a rectangular basin with chamfered ends raised on two quadrangular columns with chamfered angles; the basin has a Latin inscription all around the upper sides; one side of the basin is badly cracked. The metal font cover is a low rectangular pyramid with double knob finial. A second font, of later date, has its inner basin well filled with sand and is now used as candle-holder. Some sources have this font as a converted sarcophagus, which is unlikely given the size and the internal divisions. [NB: documentary charters report that the abbey exists since the late10th-century; the list of abbots starts in 1060; we have no information on its earlier font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 657346 4821484

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: rectangular (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: semicircular (two wells)

Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Depth: 20 cm

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Height of Base: 54 cm [35 + 19]

Height of Side Columns: 35 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 84 x 50 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: full text not available

Inscription Location: around the basin sides

Inscription Text: "+ NISI - QUI / RENATUS - FUERIT - EX / AQUA - ET - SPIRITU - SANCTO - NON / POTEST - INTROIRE / IN - REGNUM - DEI"

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, copper?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]