Biganos / Biganòs / Boii / Boios
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph in Visites Aquitaine [http://visites.aquitaine.fr/eglise-saint-gervais-693] [accessed 21 December 2013]
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view of font
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DRAC Aquitaine, 2013
Image Source: drawing in Les dessins de Lucien de Maleville et le patrimoine monumental de la Gironde, DRAC Aquitaine [http://aquitaine.culture.gouv.fr/dossiers-thematiques/] [accessed 22 November 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18791BIG
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Gervais [originally from the Prieuré de Comprian]
Church Patron Saints: St. Gervase & St. Protase [aka Gervasius and Protasius, Gervasis and Prothasis]
Church Location: avenue de la Libération, 33380 BIGANOS -- Tel. : +33 5 57 70 67 56
Country Name: France
Location: Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located on the D3, N of the A660, E of Gujan-Mestras; canton Audenge, arrondissement Arcachon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bordeaux
Historical Region: Pays de Buch -- Arcachonnais
Font Location in Church: Inside the parish church at Biganos [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: according to a 1085 document, there were three churches here; one of them here was Saint-Jean de Lamothe, and the town was an episcopal see in the 5thC; old church sold and dismantled in 1792; present church built in 1866 to replace a medieval one in the same site [source: http://lavoixdudelta.free.fr] [accessed 22 November 2013]
Illustrated in a drawing by Lucien de Maleville (1881-1964) in Les dessins de Lucien de Maleville et le patrimoine monumental de la Gironde, DRAC Aquitaine [http://aquitaine.culture.gouv.fr/dossiers-thematiques/] [accessed 22 November 2013]. The font consists of a basin that is quatrefoil-shaped both in and out, moulded around the top, decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, and figures/symbols [cf. infra] at 90-degree angles on the sides, on a base consisting of three moulded volumes -thinner to thicker; of the three, only the top appears original. There is a conical font cover with an orb-and-Latin cross finial. Tourisme Aquitaine [www.tourisme-aquitaine.fr/fr/visiter/patrimoine-culturel/gironde/biganos/eglise-saint-gervais-de-biganos.html] [accessed 22 Nvember 2013] informs: "L'église, de style néoroman, construite en 1866 est l'oeuvre de l'architecte Gustave Alaux. Dans l'église sont conservés les fonts baptismaux du XVe siècle, provenant de l'ancien prieuré de Comprian, détruit à La Révolution. La cuve baptismale, en pierre calcaire présente un décor sculpté, de bonne qualité, où l'on reconnaît les quatre symboles des évangélistes: le taureau, le lion, l'aigle et l'ange."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
