Thiron-Gardais / Gardais / Thiron-de-Gardais / Tiron
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view of church exterior - west portal in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Calips, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2013 by Calips [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France_Centre_Eure-et-Loir_Thiron-Gardais_07.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbey of Tiron, at Thiron-Gardais, engraving from Monasticon Gallicanum, 17th cent."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 17thC engraving in Matériaux du Monasticon gallicanum de Dom Germain [Michel Germain], Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 11820 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiron-Thiron.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Thiron Gardais église. Extérieur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martpan, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2011 by Martpan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiron_Gardais_église_12.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef vue du portail d'entrée abbatiale de Thiron-Gardais Eure-et-Loir France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Le Passant, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2020 by Le Passant [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_vue_du_portail_d'entrée_abbatiale_de_Thiron-Gardais_Eure-et-Loir_France.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
![Source caption: "Nef vue du choeur abbatiale de Thiron-Gardais Eure-et-Loir France" -- the baptismal font is discernible at the far [wet] end, right [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231004011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef vue du choeur abbatiale de Thiron-Gardais Eure-et-Loir France" -- the baptismal font is discernible at the far [wet] end, right [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Le Passant, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 18 July 2020 by Le Passant [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_vue_du_choeur_abbatiale_de_Thiron-Gardais_Eure-et-Loir_France.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: the baptismal font originally from the parish church at nearby Gardais
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Le Passant, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 July 2020 by Le Passant [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_vue_du_portail_d'entrée_abbatiale_de_Thiron-Gardais_Eure-et-Loir_France.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Édith Leroy estime que le pied et la cuve peuvent être d’époques différentes."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Détail / L'Echo Républicain, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in Michel Détail in L'Echo Républicain [https://www.lechorepublicain.fr/thiron-gardais-28480/loisirs/les-fonts-baptismaux-ont-quitte-leglise_1203368/] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24970THI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Note-Dame [ancienne abbatiale]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 6B Rue de l'Abbaye, 28480 Thiron-Gardais, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure-et-Loir, Centre-Val de Loire
Directions to Site: Located off the D922 [aka Rue du Commerce], 12-13 km E of Nogent-le-Retrou, about 100 km NE of Le Mans
Historical Region: Terres de Perche / Centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the former abbey church
Century and Period: 16th 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: 12thC abbey church; damaged by fire 1786; cult 1792-1793 ceased to become 'temple de la Raison'; abbey partly demolished 1810 -- remaining abbey buildings listed in 1912 in Mérimée [ref.: PA00097223]: "Abbaye royale dès 1122"
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font of the 16th century originally from nearby Gardais, is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM28001418]: "Fonts baptismaux provenant de l'église de Gardais. [...] Pierre : taillé, peint [...] 16e siècle". The baptismal font in the former abbey church consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with ribbed pattern around the underbowl, raised on a round pedestal base with roll mouldings at each end, and raised on a short square plinth. No cover present. An earlier (24 June 2012) article by Michel Détail in L'Echo Républicain [https://www.lechorepublicain.fr/thiron-gardais-28480/loisirs/les-fonts-baptismaux-ont-quitte-leglise_1203368/] [accessed 4 October 2023] under the title 'Les fonts baptismaux ont quitté l’église' informed that the font in the abbey church had been removed to her workshop in Marçon (Sarthe) by "Édith Leroy, restauratrice spécialiste de la sculpture" to restore it ["Une mission qui prendra probablement plusieurs mois avant de pouvoir ramener les fonts baptismaux à leur place. « Ils sont bien malades. De plus, ils ont déjà subi des réparations et des restaurations. Mon premier travail va donc d'être de les dérestaurer pour revenir au matériau d'origine. Je vais devoir supprimer tout ce qui est métallique car le fer, en rouillant, a généré pas mal de problèmes. De plus l'emploi de ciment, produit peu compatible avec la pierre, n'a pas arrangé les choses. Ensuite, il faudra rassembler les différents morceaux et ragréer l'ensemble », indique la spécialiste. Quant à la question de dater la pièce, Édith Leroy préfère d'abord réaliser son travail. « Il est possible que le pied et la cuve soient d'époques différentes. Il y a aussi quelques traces de polychromies sur la cuve. Si j'arrive à déterminer qu'il s'agit de polychromie d'origine je tenterais de la fixer »". [NB: we have no further information about the restoration process or results, but the font [a font?] is in its place in the church in July 2020, as can be ascertained by photographs taken on tha date [cf. ImagesArea]].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.311944, 0.993611
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 18′ 43″ N, 0° 59′ 37″ E
UTM: 31U 351240 5352918
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round