Troyes No. 2
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Results: 22 records
B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes
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B02: unidentified
Scene Description: first scene to the right of the Baptism of Christ
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B03: unfinished
Scene Description: second scene to the right of the Baptism of Christ
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B04: unidentified
Scene Description: third scene to the right of the Baptism of Christ; agaist the wall
B05: unidentified
Scene Description: fourth scene to the right of the Baptism of Christ; agaist the wall
B06: unidentified
Scene Description: third scene to the left of the Baptism of Christ
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B07: unidentified
Scene Description: second scene to the left of the Baptism of Christ
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B08: unidentified
Scene Description: to the left of the Baptism of Christ
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Apostle or saint - St. Christopher and Christ-child
Scene Description: a/p identification in Palissy [PM10002593] [cf. FontNotes]
Apostle or saint - unidentified
Scene Description: a/p identification in Palissy [PM10002593] [cf. FontNotes]
Virgin Mary - coronation in heaven
Scene Description: a/p identification in Palissy [PM10002593] [cf. FontNotes]
design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - crocketed and pinnacled arches
Scene Description: the supports on every other arch
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around the basin upper side
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DXR, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilique_Saint-Urbain_de_Troyes,_South-East_View_20140509_1.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2016]
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view of church exterior - west façade
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilique_Saint-Urbain_de_Troyes,_Interior,_North-East_140509_1.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2014 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilique_Saint-Urbain_de_Troyes,_Interior,_South-West_140509_2.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2016]
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view of cover
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16885TRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Basilique Saint-Urbain [originally from another churcvh -- cf. FontNotes]]
Church Patron Saints: St. Urban [aka Urbanus]
Church Location: Place Vernier, 10000 Troyes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 25 73 37 13
Country Name: France
Location: Aube, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located 150 km SE of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Troyes
Font Location in Church: Inside the basilica of St-Urbain, in the back of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: 13thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078261]
Font Notes:
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Noted in the 20th Congrès archéologique held in Troyes in 1853 (Paris, 1854): 155: "Cette dernière cuve baptismale a été donnée par M. Vincent, dont elle entourait le puits. M. le Curé de la paroisse crut d'abord que c'étaient les fonts sur lesquels Urbain IV avait reçu le baptême, parce qu'en effet ils provenaient de St-Jacques, paroisse des parents de saint Urbain; mais l'erreur ne tarda pas à être reconnue." Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts in the Gothic style; ornamented with an arcade containing Christ and the Apostles. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM10002593]: "Cuve acquise, lors de la démolition de l'église Saint-Jacques-aux-Nonnains, par un maître maçon de Troyes, nommé Chanté, qui la vendit à M. Vincent, boulanger, rue de l'Hôtel de ville, à l'angle de la petite rue Gambey, pour en faire une margelle de puits dans la cour de sa maison. Elle fut défoncée et servit à cet usage jusqu'en 1849, époque où le propriétaire vendit sa maison pour habiter la rue Notre-Dame, au coin de la rue de la Petite-Tannerie. En quittant son ancien domicile, il la donna à l'église Saint-Urbain, sa nouvelle paroisse, où elle fut rendue à son ancienne destination. Cette cuve intéressante passait depuis longtemps pour être celle où Urbain IV fut baptisé. Cette erreur, qui s'était répandue dans le peuple sans aucun fondement réel, est réfutée par le caractère architectural du petit monument, qui appartient certainement au 15e siècle [...] (provenant de l'église détruite Notre-Dame aux Nonains)". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with two arcades: a small one on the upper sides has blank trefoiled arches; the larger one below, has crocketed arches with pinnacles, with a Biblical scene in each; one of the scenes is the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, with John the Baptism and an angel holding clothes [NB: the Palissy entry [cf. supra] identifies: "apôtre ; saint Christophe ; Enfant Jésus ; Baptême du Christ ; Couronnement de la Vierge"]. The base is moulded. The wooden cover is crown-shaped, with a ball finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.298128, 4.076547
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 17′ 53.26″ N, 4° 4′ 35.57″ E
UTM: 31U 579841 5349997
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM10002593]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985