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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Corre en France."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lionel Allorge, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 13 August 2013 by Lionel Allorge [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Corre_en_2013_3.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 11 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "vue intérieure, vers l'entrée de l'Église Saint-Maurice de Corre"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2022 by Hyppolyte de Saint-Rambert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Maurice_de_Corre_0964.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 11 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef de l'église de Corre"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Espirat, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2019 by Espirat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_de_l'église_de_Corre.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 11 May 2024]
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information

Scene Description: the original(?) text informing of the discovery of the statue, its destruction and the re-purposing of a fragment into a holy-water stoup [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a text of ca. 1750 [source N/A]
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view of font in context

Scene Description: the present font in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [20157001418NUC2A] by Sonia Dourlot, in Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté [https://patrimoine.bourgognefranchecomte.fr/dossiers-inventaire/eglise-paroissiale-saint-maurice-anterieurement-saint-pierre] [accessed 11 May 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 25491COR
Object Type: Stoup
Object Details: statue, Roman?
Font Date: n.d.
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Maurice de Corre
Font Location in Church: At the entrance of the present church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris] [formerly St. Peter]
Church Notes: original church 893; documented 1090; re-built as parochial dedicated to St Peter in 1242; burned down in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1848)
Church Address: 2 rue Emile Auviller, 70500 Corre, France
Site Location: Haute-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D417, 70-80 km N of Besançon
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse de Besançon
Historical Region: Le Pays jusséen
Additional Comments: re-purposed Roman(?) statue as stoup (cf. FontNotes) -- disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
The curious story of a marble statue of a naked Venus, a fragment of whose belly section was recycled as holy-water stoup is related in Chevalier's Mémoires historiques sur la Ville at Seigneurie de Poligny (1767). Chevalier's mention of the stoup [cf. supra] is noted in Histoire de Jonvelle et ses environs by M. l'abbé [Jean-Baptiste] Coudriet and M. l'abbé [Pierre-François] Chatelet (Besançon: J. Jacquin, 1864), chapter IV, p. 36: "Chevalier, dans ses Mémoires sur Poligny, rapporte que, vers le milieu du siècle dernier, on déterra une belle statue de Vénus en marbre blanc, de grandeur colossale, bien conservée et absolument nue. Son indécence la fit mutiler, et l'abdomen servit à faire le bénitier que l'on voit à l'entrée de l'église actuelle." An entry in AGGLOCENE by Adrien Saggese and Christophe Card [https://agglocene.huma-num.fr/notices-de-sites/haute-saone/corre-haute-saone/] [accessed 11 May 2024] includes a reference to a report of the discovery of, among other pieces, a naked statue in white marble of Venus in the 18th century; it was immediately destroyed but the belly was transformed into a holy-water stoup; the source recommends caution regarding this information ["Une mention plus floue signale la découverte au XVIIIe siècle d’une statue de Vénus en marbre blanc immédiatement détruite et dont le ventre a été transformé en bénitier (D.C.H.S. 1970). Aucune provenance n’est précisée pour cet élément sculpté et il convient donc de prendre cette information avec précaution"]. [NB: the baptismal font in this church is of a late date].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.917662, 5.994629
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 55′ 3.58″ N, 5° 59′ 40.66″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: fragment

REFERENCES

  • Chevalier, François-Félix, Mémoires historiques sur la Ville at Seigneurie de Poligny, avec des Recherches rélatives à l'histoire du Comté de Bourgogne et de ces anciens souverains [...], Lons-le-Saunier: Imp. Pierre Delhorme, 1767, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3DUVAAAAQAAJ] [accessed 11 May 2024]