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]:
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24453TOU
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: ca. 1674?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Jaumon brothers
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Saturnin de Tourbes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
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"
Church Address: 4 Rue de l'Egalité, 34120 Tourbes, France
Site Location: Hérault, Occitanie, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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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".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 530770 4810384
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.445721, 3.38027
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 26′ 44.6″ N, 3° 22′ 48.97″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Roquebrun)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round