Saint-Jean-de-Luz / Donibane Lohitzun
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: inside the baptistery
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view of church interior - baptistery
Scene Description: on the north side of the nave
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view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship
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view of church interior - organ
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: notice the extended galleries at the west end, both north and south sides, typical of churches of this area
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: 17th-century, by local artist Martin de Bidache
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ghislain 18, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2011 by ghislain 18 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Le_retable_-_%C3%A9glise_de_Saint-Jean-de-Luz.JPG] [accessed 23 October 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17690LUZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Date Visited: 2011-06-25
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale St-Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Jean-de-Luz / San Joan Bataiatzailearen eliza (Donibane Lohizune)
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00084494]: "L'édifice est également un type parfait des églises du Pays Basque français. Il semble avoir été bâti au cours de la première moitié du 15e siècle et comprend une nef unique voûtée de pierre. Modifiée au 16e siècle"
Church Address: Rue Léon Gambetta, 64500 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France -- Tel.: +33 5 59 26 08 81
Site Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D810, 12-13 km NE of Hendaye. The church is located in the old town centre, near the old fishing harbour and the mouth of the river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron
Historical Region: Aquitaine -- Pays Basque
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the medieval one?)
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: the present baptismal font here is modern: a small octagonal basin with plain sides tapering to a centre ring, resting of a slender octagonal pedestal base and a moulded lower base. The ornate wooden cover is of the rim-buffet type, octagonal in shape and profusely decorated; two see monsters at the sides, plus two winged fabulous animals below, to the right and left of the font; the alcove in which the font stands is framed and panelled in equally decorated wood, all of it 18th-century. [NB: there was a Romanesque church here in the 12th century, and there are remains of the Gothic building that replaced it in the 15th century; the present church is of the mid-17th century, but we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.388056, -1.6625
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 23′ 17″ N, 1° 39′ 45″ W