Saint-Julien-Chapteuil No. 1

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cleric - abbot or bishop - wearing mitre

Scene Description: Source caption: "the font features a pair of sculpted figures, each within an arched frame. It appears that the left hand figure is a Madonna and Child and the right hand one is a bishop holding a vessel of some kind (perhaps a vial of holy water?). The knot decorations would indicate a Celtic influence to the ensemble." -- all the carvings are very crudely executed [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all the carvings are very crudely executed [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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design element - architectural - column - decorated column - torsade, rope moulding, etc.

Scene Description: all the carvings are very crudely executed [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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design element - motifs - foliage?

Scene Description: all the carvings are very crudely executed [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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design element - patterns - interlace - varied

Scene Description: Source caption: "the font features a pair of sculpted figures, each within an arched frame. It appears that the left hand figure is a Madonna and Child and the right hand one is a bishop holding a vessel of some kind (perhaps a vial of holy water?). The knot decorations would indicate a Celtic influence to the ensemble." -- all the carvings are very crudely executed

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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human figure - unidentified

Scene Description: Source caption: "the font features a pair of sculpted figures, each within an arched frame. It appears that the left hand figure is a Madonna and Child and the right hand one is a bishop holding a vessel of some kind (perhaps a vial of holy water?). The knot decorations would indicate a Celtic influence to the ensemble." -- all the carvings are very crudely executed [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Sourca caption: "Saint-Julien-Chapteuil Église chevet"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Julien-Chapteuil_Église_chevet.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Julien-Chapteuil Église façade occidentale"

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Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2009 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Julien-Chapteuil_Église_façade_occidentale4.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Julien de Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, vue générale de l'église"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jackydarne, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 5 May 2017 by Jackydarne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Julien_de_Saint-Julien-Chapteuil,_vue_générale_de_l'église.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church interior - aisle - west end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bas-côté" -- a font or stoup is visible at the west end of the aisle

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle nord Saint-Joseph (15ème siècle)" [is the vessel in the bottom-left corner also a font/stoup?]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Faure, 2024

Image Source: digital image in Raymond Faure [http://www.raymond-faure.com/Auvergne_Romane/Saint-Julien-Chapteuil_Église_Saint_Julien (52).JPG] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Julien-Chapteuil - Église Saint-Julien - Abside et absidiole"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOT, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 12 May 2016 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Julien-Chapteuil_-_Église_Saint-Julien_-2.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Julien, chapiteaux de la nef."

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Julien-Chapteuil - Église Saint-Julien - Chapiteau"

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view of church interior - nave - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Julien-Chapteuil - Église Saint-Julien - Chapiteau"

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view of font

Scene Description: some sources date it 7th / 8thC [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancienne cuve baptismale (1639) avec le monogramme IHS au centre d'un soleil (Jésus Sauveur des Hommes)" -- the 1639 stoup re-purposed as baptismal font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raymond Faure, 2024

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "...the most incredible piece in that church "Saint-Julien" was the cryptic baptistery. Probably way older than the church itself. Maybe dating back to the 8th century..." [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin M. Miles, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph 2 July 2008 by Martin M. Miles [https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/3884046670] [accessed 17 August 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "On the altar is a cryptic 7th century baptismal font. Of unknown origin, the font features a pair of sculpted figures, each within an arched frame. It appears that the left hand figure is a Madonna and Child and the right hand one is a bishop holding a vessel of some kind (perhaps a vial of holy water?). The knot decorations would indicate a Celtic influence to the ensemble."

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Image Source: digital image 19 November 2015 by Dennis Aubrey, in Via Lucis Press [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapelle sud de la Vierge (15ème siècle) avec l'ancienne cuve baptismale" -- the 1639 stoup re-purposed as baptismal font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25662CHA
Church/Chapel: Église paroissiale [ancienne prieurale] Saint-Julien à Saint-Julien-Chapteuil
Church Patron Saints: St. Julian of Brioude [3rd cent. martyr] [aka St. Julien d'Auvergne]
Church Location: 4 Pl. de l'Église, 43260 Saint-Julien-Chapteuil, France
Country Name: France
Location: Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Directions to Site: Located off the D15, 13-14 km E of Le Puy en Velay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse du Puy-en-Velay
Historical Region: Auvergne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 7th - 8th century / 12th - 13th century, Pre-Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing these objects to our attention and for his help in documenting them
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00092858]: "Saint-Julien de Chapteuil fut, au Moyen-Age, un prieuré dépendant de l'abbaye de la Chaise-Dieu [...] 12e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 19e siècle"
The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Julien_de_Saint-Julien-Chapteuil] [accessed 16 August 2024] mentions two vessels in this church: "Parmi le mobilier, il est à signaler en particulier : des fonts baptismaux datés du VIIe siècle, dont l’origine n’est pas établie ; un ancien bénitier transformé en fonts baptismaux". Two vessels are illustrated in the Je traine ici et là entry for this village [http://jetraine.canalblog.com/archives/2020/11/24/38650368.html] [accessed 16 August 2024]: one appears to be a much damaged and eroded baptismal font, apparently monolithic, consisting of a roughly round basin on a pedestal that includes clustered colonnettes on a square lower base; appears medieval. The other vessel shown in the Je traine... site [cf. supra] appears also monolithic, a tapering square shape and plain; this may be the one referred as a stoup now used as font [NB: this same object is illustrated also in Raymond Faure [http://www.raymond-faure.com/Auvergne_Romane/Saint_Julien_Chapteuil_Église_Saint_Julien_Intérieur.html] [accessed 16 August 2024] where it is captioned: "Ol[d] baptismal font (1639) with the IHS monogram (Jesus our Saviour)". Dennis Aubrey writes in his entry for this church [https://vialucispress.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/an-abbey-church-in-the-home-of-poets-dennis-aubrey/] [accessed 16 August 2024]: "On the altar is a cryptic 7th century baptismal font. Of unknown origin, the font features a pair of sculpted figures, each within an arched frame. It appears that the left hand figure is a Madonna and Child and the right hand one is a bishop holding a vessel of some kind (perhaps a vial of holy water?). The knot decorations would indicate a Celtic influence to the ensemble." [NB: the object is very crudely rendered, the carving not skilled at all; attributing such an early date on account of these factors would go against Francis Bonds general rule of not assigning ancien dating to crudely executed works].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.0343, 4.06268
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 2′ 3.48″ N, 4° 3′ 45.65″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round