Vermand / Augusta Viromanduorum / Viromandis

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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin

Scene Description: With a human head on the left third of one of the basin sides

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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B02: animal - mammal - lion - with prey - human

Scene Description: Lion devouring a human in the centre third of this side; the bearded head of the victim still showing in the lion's mouth

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster

Scene Description: Owl-like head on the right third of this side, though it probably intends to represent a winged lion

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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B04: human figure - standing - 2

Scene Description: Facing each other, between the two winged lions on one of the basin sides

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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B05: animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged lion - 2

Scene Description: Facing out, at the extreme ends of one of the basin sides, with two human figures between them

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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B06: design element - architectural - column - torsade

Scene Description: two in the centre, two more on the extremes on the one side

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion? - bear? - 2 - couchant

Scene Description: Each side of the lower base has a pair of couchant lions/bears, back to back, their heads right at the corner, thus serving each to two bodies, one from each side

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2009 by Markus3 (Marc Roussel) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vermand_église_1.jpg] [accessed 3 January 2014]

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Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 714)

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Image Source: Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 123)

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Image Source: Enlart (1902: fig. 394)

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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 39) [original by Soil de Moriamé]

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Scene Description: a modern copy of the original font [cf. FontNotes]; this copy was [is it atill?] located in 1923 at the Musée de sculpture comparée, musée des monuments français, Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), Paris 16e.

Image Source: Gélatino-bromure ; support verre ; vue stéréoscopique ; Positif noir et blanc transparent, taken 1923 by Henri Olivier [NUMP: 4LLV2298], in Mémoire [ref.: AP4LLV2298]

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Image Source: digital image of a part of undated lithograph in the Archives départementales de l'Aisne [https://archives.aisne.fr] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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Image Source: Drake (2002: pl. 102)

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Image Source: Rolland (1928?) [original by Soil de Moriamé]

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Scene Description: ca. 1900?

Image Source: Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure [NUMP: MH0028140] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00028140] [accessed 3 January 2014]

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Scene Description: ca. 1900?

Image Source: Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure [NUMP: MH0029501] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029501] [accessed 3 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00234VER

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Marguerite [before 1684 in the Chapelle des Prémontrés de Vermand]

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly St. Augustin?]

Church Location: 02490 Vermand, France

Country Name: France

Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Vermand is located on the D33, 10-12 kms W of Saint-Quentin on the N29-E44 (dir. Amiens), N of Attilly

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin

Historical Region: Pays du Vermandois, Picardie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1170 [Pudelko]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? / atelier boulonnais?

Cognate Fonts: Other Tournai fonts in France, England, etc. The base similar to the one at Evin-Malmaison [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: 9thC religious house here passes on to the Premonstratensians in the 12thC; suppressed at the Revolution

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Malézieux (1873), in an article about the fonts at Berthenicourt and Saint-Germain (nr. Guise) in Aisne, includes a number of fonts of similar date and design at "Vermand, La-Neuvelle-la-Corbie, Vendeuil, Saint-Simon, Marle, Montdidier, Ver", and fragments in the churches of "Etreillers, Ribemont, Fonsomme, Gauchy, Marteville". Lefèbvre-Pontalis (1885) notes the similarities with the font at Laffaux [cf. Index entry] and dates it also to the mid 12th-century. Cloquet (1895) compares the capitals of the base to those in the fonts of Lichtervelde, Saint-Venant [disappeared], Deux-Acren, Zillebeke and Termonde. The basin sides -only one visible in this source- show three animals framed by carved columns: a griffin with a bearded human head on the left; a lion (?) in the centre, in the process of devouring a human being [described by Corblet as "un homme barbu"], whose head is still visible in the beast's open mouth; the head of the animal on the right looks like an owl, probably not the intention of the artist since the body is that of a winged lion (?). Corblet's drawing of ca. 1881-1882 shows another side of the basin, one in which two human figures face each other in the centre, a winged lion on either side looking out [this is probably the same side illustrated in Enlart (in Lasteyrie, 1929), and the animal on the left is a bearded lion, looking quite Babylonic]. The lower base, on which rests the columns of the base, has pairs of couchant lions resting on the square plinth [the couchant animals appear to have bear heads, at least in one of the sides]. Yet another side is visible in Roussel (1928): two rampant lions (?) back-to-back but their faces turned aggressively to each other; they are separated from the winged lions at either end, facing out, by twisted columns. Illustrated in Lasteyrie (1929, after Enlart). Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929) who informs that until 1684, the font was in the Chapelle des Prémontrés de Vermand, which had served as the parish curch of the town; on that date it was moved into the present parish church. Described in Chastel (1966) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the Tournai type, "montées sur pied [...] cantonné de colonnes". The papers of the XXIIIe Congrès de la Fédération des Sociétés d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de l'Aisne [www.histoireaisne.fr/memoires_numerises/chapitres/tome_25/Tome_025_page_003.pdf] refer to the Vermand font as "probablement carolingiens". Described in Oursel (1994). Described and illustrated in Drake (2002). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02001306] and illustrated in Mémoire [refs.: APMH00028140, APMH00029501]. Illustrated also in Mémoire [ref.: AP4LLV2298] is a mould made of the original font for the Musée de sculpture comparée, musée des monuments français, Palais de Chaillot (Trocadéro), Paris 16e.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 510779 5524188

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (marbre de Boulogne acc. to de Caumont)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: Probably a centre hole as in most of the fonts of this type.

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; r["References"]

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929

Lefèbvre-Pontalis, Eugène, "Fonts baptismaux d'Urcel et de Laffaux (Aisne)", 6e série, t. 1, 51, Bulletin Monumental [Société française d'archéologie], pp. 597-600; r["References"]

Malézieux, J., "Cuves baptismales de Berthenicourt et de St-Germain", 1er année (1873), Le Vermandois: revue d'histoire locale, beaux-arts et littérature, pp. 81-83; r["References"]

N.S. 4, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, pp. 259; r["References"]

Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Rolland, Paul, "Les fonts baptismaux tournaisiens: un produit artistique d'exportation aux XIe. et XIIe. siècles", [?], [?], Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe, [1928?], pp. p. [555]-561; r["References"]

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929

Roussel, J., Sculpture française: époque romane, Paris: A. Morancé, 1928

Ruprich-Robert, V., Architecture normande aux XIe et XIIe siècles en Normandie et en Angleterre, Paris: Libraririe des imprimeries réunies, 1884-1889