Montdidier No. 1

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Christ - Christ in Majesty

Scene Description: On the front side of the basin, a bust of Christ in Majesty between two accanthus plants

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_église_St-Pierre_(fonts_baptismaux)_1.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2020]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Scene Description: Blind arcade with eight arches on one of the sides of the basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: 535-536 and fig. 2)

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: foliated capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base form the underbowl

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: on the four bases of the outer colonnettes of the base

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the four outer colonnettes of the base

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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus - 2

Scene Description: a large one on either side of Christ in Majesty

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the base of the central shaft of the support

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head - grotesque or fantastic - foliage stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the upper rim surface

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Drake (2002: pl. 105)

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symbol - fruit - grapes? (arum?)

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Drake (2002: pl. 105)

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montdidier (Somme, France) - Le portail de l'église Saint-Pierre (façade Ouest). Le parvis de l'édifice est limité à une petite placette, juste au bord de la falaise, qui permet d'avoir une vue en contrebas sur la vallée."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_église_St-Pierre_(portail).jpg] [accessed 17 September 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montdidier (Somme, France) - La Place Parmentier avec, en arrière-plan, l'église Saint-Pierre et à droite la statue de Parmentier."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_Place_Parmentier_1.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: 535-536 and fig. 2)

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view of font

Scene Description: From the files of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton (ref.: 052851), after Enlart

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in the Index of Christian Art [ref.: 052851]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Montdidier (Somme, France) - Les fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Pierre."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_église_St-Pierre_(fonts_baptismaux)_1.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2020]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Drake (2002: pl. 105)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00336MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: rue Saint-Pierre, 80500 Montdidier, France

Country Name: France

Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the D26, D41, D930, between Amiens (NW) and Compiègne (SW), about 35 kms NW of Compiegne up the D935, 40 kms SE of Amiens. Another font -16th cent.- in Montdidier at the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Historical Region: Santerre / Picardie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, S side

Century and Period: 12th century (mid) (?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? / Mosan font?

Cognate Fonts: similar motifs as those on the font at St. Mary Bourne, in Hampshire, England

Church Notes: church built 1460; completed 15thC; much damaged in 1914-1918 war; restored -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116203]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80001486]: "La cuvette et la base, carrées, sont réunies l'une à l'autre par quatre colonnettes aux angles et un support cylindrique central. Le dessus et les quatre côtés de la cuve portent des sculptures [...] 12e siècle". 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". A Tournai-style font with a square basin of short narrow sides, mounted on a centre broad column and four more slender shafts at the corners. The visible sides show, on the left, a blind arcade of round arches; the next basin side to the right contains (L -> R) a plant motif, then, in the centre, an image of Christ, haloed, his right raised in benediction; to the right, another plant motif similar to the first; the other two sides are not visible (description based on Christe, 1982). Viollet-le-Duc dates it "de la fin du XIe siècle" (Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875), but it is more likely to be of the mid-12th as suggested in Oursel [cf. infra]. Eden (1909) lists it as a similar font to those at Nouvion-le-Vineux and St. Mary Bourne. Lasteyrie (1929) describes it as one of the best of the group. Oursel (1994) relates its arcade decoration to those on the fonts at Nouvion-le-Vineux and Ames, and dates the font to the mid-12th century. Described and illustrated in Drake (2002), who groups it with the Tournai fonts.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.646243, 2.568198

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 38′ 46.48″ N, 2° 34′ 5.51″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Boulogne)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown (probably modern)

Material: wood and metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: hinged in the centre; locks on both wings

REFERENCES

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

Christe, Yves, Art of the Christian World AD 200-1500: a handbook of styles and forms, New York: Rizzoli, 1982

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"]

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

Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; r["References"]

Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.

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

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

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868