Decize No. 2 / Decetia / Saint-Maurice-les-Decize / Saint-Prive-les-Decize

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: arranged at two levels

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [edited] taken 4 September 2007 by Szeder László [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint-Aré_church_in_Decize] [accessed 3 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - handle - 4

Scene Description: more functional than design -- the chains hanging from them may indicate the presence of a cover at some point

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [edited] taken 4 September 2007 by Szeder László [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Saint-Aré_church_in_Decize] [accessed 3 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Scene Description: a number of them, at three levels

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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inscription

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scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: a number of them at two levels, in small rectangular frames; one of them could be the Crucifixion

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west tower - detail

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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Image Source: digital photograph in [www.nievre-tourisme.com/tourisme/eglise-et-crypte-saint-are---decize.htm?itm:n%23_104670] [accessed 3 August 2013]

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view of church interior - crypt - detail

Scene Description: the arquette with the remains of Saint-Aré

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: across the colonnade between the nave and the south aisle; the font is visible in the southwest corner; one of the two stoups is visible in front of the gallery column, by the west entranceway

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18578DEC

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aré

Church Patron Saints: St. Arey [aka Aré, Aregius?]

Church Location: Decize 58300

Country Name: France

Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: Located between Nevers and Pouilly-en-Auxois

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers

Historical Region: Nivernais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, at the sides of the centre aisle, by the entranceway

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00112875]: "Choeur et crypte : 7e siècle, 11e siècle ; Eglise : 12e siècle, 15e siècle, 19e siècle"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Two bronze holy-water stoups of the 15th century are listed in Palissy [ref.: PM58000565]: "Vasques en forme de mortiers, peu évasées et munies de quatre anses. Le rebord de la vasque est orné d'un bandeau avec inscription en saillie. Au-dessous, des personnages en bas relief alternés avec de petites scènes finement gravées, dans des médaillons rectangulaires." The stoups are of the bucket-shape design, comon in this area of France; these two stoups are provided with four ear-type handles each at 90-degree angles; there are old chain links hanging from the handles, which may indicate there may have been a cover on them; the decorative elements, as described above, contain several motifs, symbols and scenes (?); around the side of the upper rim is an inscription [transcription not available]; the other ornaments are arranged horizontally, sandwiched between three sets of thin parallel mouldings; the figure on a cloud (?) appears to have been repeated through the cast; the scenes inside the rectangular 'médaillons' are different; one of them may represent the Crucifixion. The metal stoups are set atop square-to-octagonal stone pillars. The site http://histoiresdedecize.pagesperso-orange.fr/SAINT-ARE1/SAINT-ARE2_en_double.htm [accessed 3 August 2013] quotes from an inventoy carried out in 1906 ["Le 19 janvier 1906, M. Sanglé-Ferrière, receveur des domaines et contributions de Decize, se rend à l'église Saint-Aré. Sa mission est d'effectuer l'inventaire complet de tout le mobilier, des objets de culte, des ornements, vitraux et autres décorations ajoutés au bâtiment depuis qu'il est devenu propriété communale en 1790. Cet inventaire se déroule en présence de l'abbé Perret, vicaire (le curé Lemoine ayant refusé de se présenter) et du comte de Dreux-Brézé, président des marguiliers de la fabrique. La nouvelle loi de séparations des Eglises et de l'Etat exige cette démarche."] This inventory includes a "Bénitier entrée classé" and "Fonts baptismaux, intérieur garni en zinc sur pied scellé en pierre", valued as a pair 100 Francs. The holy-water stoup is one of the two found here now, but there is no reference to a second stoup in the inventory of 1906.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.827853, 3.461117

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 49′ 40.27″ N, 3° 27′ 40.02″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm* [maximum]

Font Height (less Plinth): 43 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM58000565]]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: around the upper rim side