Paris No. 25 / Lutetia Parisiorum
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Results: 17 records
coat of arms - Loius XII?
Scene Description: the shield seen here on the left is much defaced but appears to have the arms of Louis XII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290502_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_cuve_baptismale_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: several seen here: two types of rosettes, fleur-de-lis
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290502_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_cuve_baptismale_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290502_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_cuve_baptismale_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: on all the sides, on some partially covered by the shields
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 December 2014 in Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg [http://saintmerry.org/le-mystere-du-benitier/] [accessed 20 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290502_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_cuve_baptismale_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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design element - motifs - scroll
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 December 2014 in Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg [http://saintmerry.org/le-mystere-du-benitier/] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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symbol - shield - emblem - Christ - the instruments of the Passion
Scene Description: on the left shield are the cross, lance, sponge, etc.; on the right shield are the lantern from the garden of Gethsemane, the bag with the 30 pieces of silver, the rope and the pillar from the flagellation, the dice, the pierced hand, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 December 2014 in Saint-Merry / Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg [http://saintmerry.org/le-mystere-du-benitier/] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: the northeast end of Saint-Merri seen from place Igor Stravinsky
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Poulpy, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2011 by Poulpy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Merri,_Paris_-_General_View_from_Place_Igor-Stavinsky.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: the west side of the church on rue Saint-Martin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo), 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2015 by Benoît Prieur (Agamitsudo) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Merri_-_côté_rue_Saint-Martin_-_2.JPG] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290376_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_portail_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1739 engraving, section of plan de Turgot, Kyoto University Library [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turgot_map_Paris_KU_10.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a 1739 engraving, section of plan de Turgot, Kyoto University Library [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turgot_map_Paris_KU_10.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint Merri et Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) vus de la Tour Saint-Jacques"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yan Caradec, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2014 by Yan Caradec [www.flickr.com/photos/la_bretagne_a_paris/14828222898/] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff [David Iliff], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2014 by Dilifff [David Iliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Merri_Church_Interior_2,_Paris,_France_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diliff [David Iliff], 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 December 2014 by Dilifff [David Iliff] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Merri_Church_Interior_4,_Paris,_France_-_Diliff.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of stoup
![Source caption: "Église Saint-Merri (cuve baptismale aux armes de Louis XII et d'Anne de Bretagne) - Paris IV" [NB: it is not a font but a stoup, and the centre and right shields are charged with Instruments of the Passion; the left shield, much damaged, is supposed to have the arms of France and Britanny on it]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160320017_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Merri (cuve baptismale aux armes de Louis XII et d'Anne de Bretagne) - Paris IV" [NB: it is not a font but a stoup, and the centre and right shields are charged with Instruments of the Passion; the left shield, much damaged, is supposed to have the arms of France and Britanny on it]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2015 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290508_Paris_IV_eglise_St-Merri_cuve_baptismale_rwk.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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view of stoup in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 1914
Image Source: photograph taken in 1913 by Eugène Atget, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00039751] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0350/sap01_mh00039751_p.jpg] [accessed 20 March 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20443PAR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Merri [aka Saint-Merry]
Church Patron Saints: St. Medericus [aka Médéric, Merri, Merry]
Church Location: 76 rue de la Verrerie [at Saint-Martin], 4e arrondissement, Paris, France
Country Name: France
Location: Paris, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located at the rue Saint-Martin-rue de la Verrerie crossroads, on the right bank of the Seine, at the level of Pont Notre-Dame
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Paris
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: original church 9thC; re-built 12thC; present 16thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00086259]; lost part of the upper tower in 19thC fire -- now serves also as home of the Centre pastoral Halles-Beaubourg
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM75001078]: "bénitier [...] La cuve polygonale est posée sur une colonne. Insignes de la Passion. Très mutilé [...] armes de France et de Bretagne (sur la cuve) [...] limite 15e siècle 16e siècle." The stoup consists of an octagonal basin with a much-damaged moulding around the upper rim, the front sides decorated with large shields charged with the Instruments of the Passion (cross, lance, sponge, lantern from the garden of Gethsemane, bag with the 30 pieces of silver, rope and the pillar from the flagellation, dice, pierced hand, etc.), as well as the of arms of Louis XII and Ann de Bretagne; on the underbowl are foliage scrolls; raised on a slender polygonal colonnette decorated with mouldings at both ends, the stem decorated with rosettes and fleurs-de-lis.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.858889, 2.351111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 51′ 32″ N, 2° 21′ 4″ E
UTM: 31U 452405 5411972
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Font Height (less Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM75001078]