Malesherbes
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche Saint-Martin in Malesherbes im Département Loiret (Centre-Val de Loire/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem ersten Viertel des 14. Jahrhunderts".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_471.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: bald and jug-eared; there may have been a part of the upper torso but a large hole was drilled below the head, probably at the time when the font served as planter in the rectory garden
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_474.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: above the human head
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_474.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - V-shaped
Scene Description: several; two are visible here
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - 2
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_462.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thor19, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 June 20123 by Thor19 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_église_saint_Martin_1.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: with the font in the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_486.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the 16thC group sculpture 'La Mise au Tombeau' at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thor19, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 20123 by Thor19 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_La_Mise_au_Tombeau_1.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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design element - motifs - drapery
![around the sides of the short pedestal base; noted in Palissy [ref.: PM45000353] as one of "Ces chapiteaux qui supportaient la cuve baptismale proviennent du jardin du presbytère [...] 13e siècle".](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190407048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: around the sides of the short pedestal base; noted in Palissy [ref.: PM45000353] as one of "Ces chapiteaux qui supportaient la cuve baptismale proviennent du jardin du presbytère [...] 13e siècle".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 March 2017 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malesherbes_Saint-Martin_471.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux, pierre, début du 14e siècle".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets moibliers), 2008
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W00408 / N° tirage 45W00408] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1396/sap83_45w00408_p.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "cuve baptismale, pierre gravée après installation à l'intérieur de l'église" [NB: the side drain probably a left over from its days as planter in the rectory garden]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets moibliers), 2008
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W00411 / N° tirage 45W00411] [www2.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1396/sap83_45w00411_p.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 22082MAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Object Details: capital, medieval
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?) [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00098812] with dates in the 13th and 15thC
Church Address: Place de l'Église, 45330 Malesherbes, France
Site Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D2152, 1 km NW of Buthiers, 15-20 km SE of Fontainebleau
Additional Comments: disused font (had been used as planter in the rectory before being reinstated in the church) / altered font? / composite font? (14thC basin on recycled 13thC capital)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone listed in Palissy [ref.: PM45000352] with date in the first quarter of the 14th century and, at the time [1992?], in the rectory garden ["Provenant du jardin du presbytère."] A later entry in Mémoire [ref.: AP45W00411 / N° tirage 45W00411] shows the font restored (?) and installed in the church. The font consists of a wide cylindrical basin raised on a short pedestal base; the basin has roll mouldings at the upper rim and around the bottom; one side has a human head carved on it, bald and jug-eared; there may have been a part of the upper torso but a large hole was drilled below the head, probably at the time when the font served as planter in the rectory garden; there are V motifs on the sides as well; the pedestal base is noted in Palissy [ref.: PM45000353] as one of "Ces chapiteaux qui supportaient la cuve baptismale proviennent du jardin du presbytère [...] 13e siècle".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 456809 5349044
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.293119, 2.417684
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 17′ 35.23″ N, 2° 25′ 3.66″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM45000352]
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.