Saintes No. 1
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17494SAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2011-06-27
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th - 20th century (?), Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Église priorale Saint-Eutrope [aka Basilique Saint-Eutrope -- since 1886]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eutrope (d. 475; bishop of Orange?)
Church Notes: The original church dates from 1081; the nave of the upper church was pull down in 1803, so the transept is now at the west end. Although much of the original curch estructure has been changed, there are wonderful capitals remaining from the Romanesque period and the crypt, the "oldest religious bulding in Saintonge" is an "exact replica of the choir above" and houses a 4th?/6th? century sarcophagus with the relics of St-Eutrope. (a/p France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide (1985, p. 667). The crypte is really a funerary basilica dating originally to the 11th-century fundation of the church.
Church Address: 56 Rue Saint-Eutrope, 17100 Saintes, France
Site Location: Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the left bank of the Charente river, off the A10, 33 km NE of Royan, 60 km E of La Rochelle, 100 km N of Bordeaux
Historical Region: Saintonge
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: the present baptismal font at Saint-Eutrope's is modern, oval and moulded, with a metal cover; perhaps it was added after the nave was destroyed in the 1830s. The basin of the modern font, 110 cm at its widest point, has two pairs of wells inside: two larger ones for the water (one with a drain hole), and two smaller ones for the chrism, etc. It is made of marble. [NB: we have no information on its medieval font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 684091 5068594
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.7434, -0.6414
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 44′ 36.24″N, 0° 38′ 29.04″W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Drainage System: yes
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm* [max.]
Notes on Measurements: * [measurement of the modern font] BSI on site