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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - holding up its tails

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin16.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]

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animal - mammal - lion - 3

Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base

view of base - detai

Scene Description: one of the sides of the base: a crouching monster?

Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base: a feline?

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base: a siren holding up its tails

Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the sides of the base: a crouching monster?

Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue sur le chevet roman et la nef néo-gothique".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin03.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfaffenheim, Eglise Saint-Martin, Vue intérieure de la nef vers le choeur néo-gothique".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin05.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfaffenheim, Eglise Saint-Martin, Vue de la nef vers la tribune d'orgue" -- the reconstructed font at the far [west] end of the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin34.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]

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view of font

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier de l'église "

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2021 by Espirat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bénitier._Pfaffenheim.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Bernard Chenal [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffenheim]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Église Saint-Martin (XIIIe-XIXe) de Pfaffenheim [...] Fonts baptismaux." -- the modern font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin19.JPG] [accessed 6 July 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Bernard Chenal [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffenheim]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: towards the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin16.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]

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view of font in context

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font in the centre; the holy-water tank to the right of it

Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17248PFA

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 13 Pl. de la Mairie, 68250 Pfaffenheim, France

Country Name: France

Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located off the RN83, 3 km N of Rouffach, in the canton Rouffach, arrondissement Guebwiller

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Starsbourg

Historical Region: Alsace

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [lower base only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font reconstructed using the basin and base of a medieval font; listed in Palissy [ref.: PM68001317]: "Socle en grès rose supportant la cuve par l'intermédiaire d'un pilier de section carrée en ciment [...] Le socle présente quatre faces dont l'une est ornée d'une sirène à deux queues qu'elle tient dans ses mains. Sur les trois autres faces, trois lions se suivent dans la même direction [...] Le socle, datable du début du 13e siècle, comme le choeur de l'église. Il s'agirait soit d'un socle de cuve baptismale soit d'une base de pilier architectural. La cuve est moderne." The second entry in Palissy [ref.: IM68007603] mentions Muller-Dietrich's identification of the base as that of a pillar: "Base sculptée qui pourrait avoir soutenu des fonts baptismaux, bien que cela soit assez hypothétique ; d'après Muller-Dietrich cette base proviendrait plutôt d'un pilier architectural. Elle peut être datée de la même époque que le choeur roman, c'est-à-dire du 1er quart du 13e siècle. Actuellement elle porte un pilier en ciment et une cuve moderne." There are actually two baptismal fonts in the church of Saint-Martin: a modern one consisting of an ornate cylindrical basin raised on five shafts with couchant lions below, on an octagonal lower base; the metal (?) cover is round and flat, with a decorated top; it is located in one of the chapels. Braun (2010) notes and illustrates the base of a baptismal font which she suggests is Romanesque; the red sandstone block of roughly square shape, decorated on three of its sides with lions and with a siren holding its tails at head level on the fourth; the block is very weathered, and the details of the carving are quite faint. [NB: the older parts of the church date from the early 12th-13th century; the old font base may be of that period]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.9848, 7.28572

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 59′ 5.28″ N, 7° 17′ 8.59″ E

UTM: 32T 372087 5316033

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)

Height of Base: 40 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM68007603] / ** Palissy [ref.: PM68001317]: "h = 110 ; d = 95 ; la = 62"

REFERENCES

Braun, Suzanne, Alsace romane, Dijon: Faton, 2010