Ecouen / Écouen
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view of font cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken in der katholischen Pfarrkirche Saint-Acceul in Écouen" [NB: the two half covers are discernible at the top]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph [Image numérique native 80L026181] 2013 by Franck Genestoux [Mémoire ref.: AP80L026181] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L026181] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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angel - cherub
Scene Description: several of them on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - garland
Scene Description: around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - cartouche
Scene Description: at least one rectangular one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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animal - mammal - lion - head
Scene Description: several of them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Écouen (95), église Saint-Acceul, vue depuis le sud-est"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 19 April 2016 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89couen_(95),_église_Saint-Acceul,_vue_depuis_le_sud-est_2.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint Acceul d'Ecouen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chappe95, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 1 January 2005 by Chappe95 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_generale_eglise_ecouen.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Écouen (95), église Saint-Acceul, nef, vue vers l'est"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 10 April 2016 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89couen_(95),_église_Saint-Acceul,_nef,_vue_vers_l'est.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2011 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Écouen_Saint-Acceul110494.JPG] [accessed 26 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00311ECO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late?), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Acceul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): [No St. Acceul known -- true patron of this church may have been St. Andéol du Vivarais]
Church Notes: 16thC church; modified mid-19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080046]
Church Address: 2 rue Jean-Bullant / place de l'Église, 95440 Écouen, France -- Tel.: +33 1 39 90 92 49
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D370 [aka rue Georges Joyeux], W of the D316, is 8-10 km N of Saint-Denis, in the arrondissement de Montmorency
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) simply as a Renaissance pedestal font. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM95000219]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Forme ovoïde [...] 16e siècle [...] H = 116 ; la = 72" [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM95000219] [accessed 26 May 2022]. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP80L026181] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80L026181] [accessed 26 May 2022]. Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval/oblong font with a double basin well on the inside; the sides and underbowl are covered in ornamentation: lion heads alternate with cherubs that hold oval cartouche-like garlands all around; foliage and floral motifs between, etc.; a rectagular cartuche on the longs side, bottom area; the narrower but equally shaped upper base is plain but the lower base has a thick roll moulding around the top. Plain wooden lid hinged in the centre and opening to both ends. Listed by Enlart (1902) simply as a Renaissance pedestal font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 454654 5429645
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.01803, 2.37981
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 1′ 4.91″ N, 2° 22′ 47.32″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval (variant: oblong)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval (variant: oblong)
Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 116 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, p. 205
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 776 footnote 4
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 250-251