Pierrefitte-Nestalas / Nestalas
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design element - motifs - circle - linked circles - foliated circles
Scene Description: open at the bottom
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: quasi-geometric foliated motifs in the upper and lower spandrels created by the linked circles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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human figure - male - atlante
Scene Description: notice the fancy knot in his belt; long robe; tips of the feet showing
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(3).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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human figure - standing
Scene Description: not clear whether male or female; unlike the atlante on the opposite side, this figure leans forward at the shoulders, on which the basin is supported; the armes extended down along the front, hands facing inwards with thumbs out; the long splaying robe (?) lets see only the tips of the feet
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(2).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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inscription - partial view
!["S SASIA DE" visible here, part of the maker's name, Sans-Gassie de Lacase [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190906005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "S SASIA DE" visible here, part of the maker's name, Sans-Gassie de Lacase [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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inscription - partial view
!["+ SANS SASI" visible here, part of the maker's name, Sans-Gassie de Lacase [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190906008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "+ SANS SASI" visible here, part of the maker's name, Sans-Gassie de Lacase [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(5).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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inscription - partial view
Scene Description: notice the damaged area on the left -- +SANS S is visible here, part of the maker's name, Sans-Gassie de Lacase [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of basin
Scene Description: with a partial view of the leaning-forward figure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(5).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of church exterior - north view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Nestalas_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Nestalas_(2).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Nestalas.JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: both figures are partially visible here, the 'atlante' on the right
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_(1).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: the forward-leaning figure is visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Père Igor, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2012 by Père Igor [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierrefitte-Nestalas_église_Pierrefitte_bénitier_détail_(5).JPG] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: the location of the stoup in the pre-1919 photograph taken for the inventory
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a 13x18 Négatif noir et blanc; support verre [MH0018985] taken before 1919 by Henri Heuzé [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00018985] [accessed 4 September 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22319PIE
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Eglise Paroissiale St. Pierre de Nestalas
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: place de l'Eglise, 65260 Pierrefitte-Nestalas, France
Country Name: France
Location: Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D921, W of the D913, 4-5 km SE of Argèles-Gazost, SSW of Lourdes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Tarbes-Lourdes
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) / 16th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Sans-Gassie de Lacase
Church Notes: earlier church said to have existed here ca. 945; re-built late-11thC; 12thC church; re-built 14thC; fortified 16thC; modified 18thC; restored 2000-2006 -- listed Mérimée : PA00095408
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM65000389]: "Bénitier [granite] porté par deux personnages. Cuve ronde, supportée par deux personnages adossés, l'ensemble reposant sur un pied hémisphérique. La cuve et les personnages sont sculptés dans un seul bloc, la base ronde dans un autre. Ces deux blocs s'emboîtent l'un dans l'autre à tenons et mortaises. [...] Marque d'auteur : + SANS GASIA de LACASA ME FECIT (le long du bord de la cuve). [...] 16e siècle [...] La base a été trouvée dans le jardin du presbytère." Studied and illustrated in Salvan-Guillotin (1996), as part of a group with those at the French parish churches of Saint-Savin-en-Lavedan, Pierrefitte-Nestalas and Ilhet, and makes reference to other stoups and fonts (Arles, Saint-Malo, Perros-Guirec, Fidenza, Torcello) that have similar atlante or 'strong man' motifs on them. Savan-Guillotin (ibid.), who gives a slightly different text for the inscription [cf. InscriptionArea] states that it suggests a date in the early-13th century, and gives E.R. Labande's Corpus des inscriptions de la France [...] (Paris, 1982, p. 98) as source(?).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.961111, -0.072639
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 57′ 40″ N, 0° 4′ 21.5″ W
UTM: 30T 738762 4760655
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 36 cm* / 36 cm**
Basin Depth: 18 cm**
Basin Total Height: 19 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm* / 96 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM65000389] / ** Savan-Guillotine (1996)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin, below the upper rim
Inscription Text: "+ SANS GASIA de LACASA ME FECIT" (Palissy)
"SANS. SASIADE. LACASA. ME. FECIT." (Savan-Guillotin)
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Salvan-Guillotin, Marc, "Un groupe de bénitiers romans ornés d'Atlantes dans les Hautes-Pyrénées", 14, Archéologie du Midi Médiéval, 1996, pp. 175-179; p. 175-179