Sauve nr. Quissac / Sauva / Seuva

INFORMATION

FontID: 19102SAU

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Sauve [ancienne église abbatiale]

Church Location: place Sivel, 30610 Sauve, France

Country Name: France

Location: Gard, Occitanie

Directions to Site: Located off the D999, 7 km NW of Quissac, 45-50 km N of Montpellier

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nîmes

Historical Region: Haut-Vidourle -- Piémont cévenol

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Church Notes: abbey church of the 11thC; destroyed in the Camisard/Huguenot insurrection in 17th-18thC; present church re-built 18th; restored 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font consists of a hemispherival basin raised on a round splaying pedestal base; decorations include a band of foliage around the basin, gadrooned pattern on the stem, and other patterns on the round lower base; modern, of the early 19th-century. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM30000572]: "Epoque Restauration [...] 1ère moitié 19e siècle"; illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP30W01266] [no. 30W01266]. [NB: we have no information on the font of the 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 576174 4866013