Gevaudan in Barreme / Gévaudan in Barrême
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view of church exterior in context - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph July 2014 in Dignois.fr [http://dignois.fr/Gevaudan/] [accessed 6 April 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23862BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Anne
Church Patron Saints: St. Anne
Church Location: Gévaudan, 04330 Barrême, France
Country Name: France
Location: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the N85-N202 crossroads, 15 km NW of Castellane, 20 km SE of Digne-les-Bains, 60-70 km WNW of Nice -- Gévaudan is a hamlet of Barrême [not to be mistaken with the region of the same name in the Languedoc], in Lozère]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: church here documented 1376 as a chapel of ease never visited by the bishop; much modified since; demolished; re-built several times in the 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA04000163] -- the entry for this chapel in http://dignois.fr/Gevaudan/ [accessed 6 April 2022] notes: "Chapelle dédiée à Sainte Anne , XIV ° , a été entièrement reconstruite en 1847. Est hors affectation à ce jour , sert de lieu d'exposition l'été."
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font is listed in Palissy [ref.: IM04000765] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/IM04000765] [accessed 6 April 2022] among this church furnishings not inventoried in any detail [="Partie constituante non étudiée [...] fonts baptismaux"]. Described in https://dossiersinventaire.maregionsud.fr/ [accessed 3 April 2022]: "Cuve en pierre probablement hémi-circulaire, entièrement noyée dans un massif de maçonnerie dans l'encoignure de la nef. Couvrement en mélèze pyramidal et octogonal, sans décor, entièrement disjoint. Cuve: h = 94, intérieur: h = 26, d = 53. [...] 16e siècle (?) ; 17e siècle (?)". A 15th-17thC(?) holy water stoup is reported in Mérimée [ref.: IA04000163] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/IA04000163] [accessed 5 April 2022]: "À gauche de la porte d'entrée [...] Benitier [...] Grès (?, gris) [...] H = 89 ; d = 58 [...] Mauvais état [...] Une colonne de plan carré porte une vasque de plan circulaire dont la partie inférieure est amincie pour former un carré. Quatre ressauts assurent la liaison entre les parties carrée et circulaire de la vasque. Les arêtes de la colonne sont abattues, avec un petit ressaut triangulaire à chaque extrémité."
[NB: the parish church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Barrême is 19th-century and has a font of the time [http://www.petit-patrimoine.com/fiche-petit-patrimoine.php?id_pp=04022_3] [accessed 6 April 202]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 37' 38.3" N, 3° 14' 3.1" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Basin Depth: 26 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]