Frontignan / Frontignan-la-Peyrade / Frontinha / Frontiniaco / Frontiniano
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coat of arms - Frontignan
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Saint-Paul de Frontignan : détail des fonts baptismaux."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tylwyth Eldar, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 November 2019 by Tylwyth Eldar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_-_Interieur_église_02.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - drapery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2010 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2010 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: lightly incised all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2010 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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inscription
Scene Description: "1609"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tylwyth Eldar, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 November 2019 by Tylwyth Eldar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_-_Interieur_église_02.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frontignan (Hérault) - Église Saint-Paul - Porte (murée) de l'église romane primitive."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 January 2007 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_St_Paul_porte_romane.JPG] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frontignan (Hérault) - Église Saint-Paul - chevet illuminé et décorations de Noël."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 December 2009 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_chevet_eglise.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Paul de Frontignan. Frontignan, Hérault, France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Ferrer, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 July 2015 by Christian Ferrer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_de_Saint-Paul_de_Frontignan,_Hérault_04.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2015]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Frontignan (Hérault) - Église Saint-Paul - Portail d'entrée et mur de l'église romane."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 January 2007 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_St_Paul_portail.JPG] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of church interior - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frontignan (Hérault) - Église Saint-Paul - vue intérieure de la porte de l'église romane primitive. Remarquer le mode de fermeture reconstitué : une barre coulissante dans le mur roman."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 January 2007 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_St_Paul_porte_romane3.JPG] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Frontignan (Hérault) - Église Saint-Paul - fonts baptismaux, portant les armes de la ville (1609)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fagairolles 34, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2010 by Fagairolles 34 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Saint-Paul de Frontignan : fonts baptismaux."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tylwyth Eldar, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 November 2019 by Tylwyth Eldar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frontignan_-_Interieur_église_01.jpg] [accessed 2 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24963FRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Paul [aka Eglise de la Conversion de Saint-Paul]
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: 3 Rue Député Lucien Salette, 34110 Frontignan, France
Country Name: France
Location: Hérault, Occitanie
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D612 and the shore, about 20 km SW of Montpellier city centre
Historical Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Chapelle des fonts-baptismaux
Date: 1609
Century and Period: 17th century(early)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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: original church 11thC(?); modified 14th, 16thC -- present church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00103455]: "Les murs de la nef datent du 12e siècle [...] Cette nef fut surélevée au 14e siècle [...] Le clocher aurait été établi ensuite et son sommet refait au 16e siècle
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM34002791]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Marbre (blanc) [...] H = : 106 ; d. = 88 [...] Cuve portée sur un piédouche orné de linges noués. Sur la cuve : écu aux armes de Frontignan, de ... à un château de ... Porte la date [...] 1609". The font consists of a round basin, roughly hemispherical but shallower, decorated with a pronounced moulding at the upper rim; the underbowl is decorated with a ribbed pattern, incised rather than carved; on one side of the basin is a large shield bearing the coat of arms of the town [cf. supra] and the date "1609"; raised on a round pedestal base of the baluster type decorated with hanging drapery bows. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.447353, 3.755183
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 26′ 50.47″ N, 3° 45′ 18.66″ E
UTM: 31T 561105 4810771
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (white)
Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM34002791]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the coat of arms, basin side
Inscription Text: "1609"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]