Tourbes / Torves
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint Saturnin Church of Tourbes, Hérault, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krzysztof Golik, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2017 by Krzysztof Golik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Saturnin_Church_of_Tourbes_01.jpg] [accessed 14 November 2022]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tourbes (Hérault), église Saint-Saturnin ; Bénitier livré en 1674 par les frères Jaumon"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région LRMP, Inventaire général, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by M. Kérignard, in Denis Népipvoda's L’exploitation du marbre à Roquebrun au XVIIe siècle : de la fenêtre à meneau au retable de marbre [https://doi.org/10.4000/pds.1385] [accessed 14 November 2022]:
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24453TOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Saturnin de Tourbes
Church Location: 4 Rue de l'Egalité, 34120 Tourbes, France
Country Name: France
Location: Hérault, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off the E39D5, 4-5 km SW of Pézenas, about 20 km NE of Béziers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Montpellier
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1674?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Jaumon brothers
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: documented as a priory church in 990; re-built 13th-14thC; demolished during the Wars of Religion; re-built 1631-1645 -- listed church in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103740] : "13e siècle, 14e siècle"
The holy-water stoup in this church is noted and illustrated in Denis Népipvoda's L’exploitation du marbre à Roquebrun au XVIIe siècle : de la fenêtre à meneau au retable de marbre [https://doi.org/10.4000/pds.1385] [accessed 14 November 2022] as having been made of a local marble by "livré en 1674 par les frères Jaumon".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.445721,
3.38027
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 26′ 44.6″ N,
3° 22′ 48.97″ E
UTM: 31T 530770 4810384
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble (Roquebrun)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round