Marmoutier, abbaye / Mauri Monasterium / Maurivilla / Maursmünster / Mormünster

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Results: 10 records

view of church exterior - façade - detail

Scene Description: six-head frieze on the façade of the abbey church; resembles the figures on the font from Airennes

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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: fragment said to be from the tympanum of the older church here, ca. 724

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: one of two lions

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 11 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 1725 font [former stoup?] and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1725 font [fromer stoup?] and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17194MAR
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale [bénédictine] Saint-Etienne [Ancienne Abbatiale Saint-Martin]
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen [formerly St. Martin]
Church Location: 67440 Marmoutier, France
Country Name: France
Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located between Saverne and Wasselonne, 33 km from Strasbourg [Not to be mistaken with its homonym in Indre-et-Loire, Poitou region]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Pays de Marmoutier-Sommerau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century[composite font?], Late Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: monastery founded in late-6thC by Irish monks lead by St. Columba; destroyed by fire; re-built 724; abbey church consecrated 971; present façade is 11thC -- listed in Mérimée [référence PA00084783]
Lerch (2010) notes and illustrates two baptismal fonts in the abbey church; the older one, with a cracked basin and no longer in use, consists of a hemispheric basin decorated with a large roll moulding at the upper rim, and a ribbed pattern below; it is raised on a square pedestal base of the baluster type, clearly a later piece not originally intended to match the basin; it has no visible cover now. The font now in use, located at the back of the narthex, is listed in Palissy [référence PM67001289] actually as a holy-water stoup: "Bénitier réalisé dans un grès blanc, à base hexagonale. Le soubassement est en grès rose. Le couvercle, en bois mouluré, est en forme de dôme surmonté d'une tige avec une boule et une croix du Saint-Esprit. [...] Date 1725 sur la cuve." It consists of a poligonal [octagonal?] basin and a pedestal base of the same shape base, also of the baluster type; the basin bears and inscription with the date '1725' in Arabic numerals. The wooden cover is dome-shaped and also polygonal [octagonal?], and has a metal cross finial. [NB: a monastery was established here at the end of the 6th century by Irish monk Leobard; abbé St. Maur rebuilds the abbey in the 8th century; the Romanesque abbey church is consecrated 971; again in 1137, but we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.690556, 7.382222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 41′ 26″ N, 7° 22′ 56″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Lerch, Jean-Paul, Les trésors de l'abbatiale de Marmoutier, Colmar: Jérôme Do Bentzinger, 2010