Saint-Jean-de-Luz / Donibane Lohitzun

Results: 7 records

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view of church interior - 'ex voto', votive image or object - votive ship

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: on the north side of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - organ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 17th-century, by local artist Martin de Bidache

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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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: inside the baptistery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2011 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 17690LUZ

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale St-Jean-Baptiste

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Country Name: France

Location: Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron

Historical Region: Aquitaine -- Pays Basque

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.388056, -1.6625

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 23′ 17″ N, 1° 39′ 45″ W