Wierre-Effroy

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - with fish tail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - griffin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - bird on its back

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

cleric - bishop - with staff - giving benediction

Scene Description: His left hand holds the staff while his right is raised in benediction

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

cleric - monk - wearing pointed hood - with dragon

Scene Description: the right hand holds the tail of one dragon, the left the wings of the other

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

design element - patterns - zigzag - beaded-tape - with leaf motif in the angles

Scene Description: The upper border of the basin sides has a band of dotted-tape zig-zag with acanthus leaves in the angles

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - wearing robe - long curly hair - holding head of dragon - Samson?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - wearing robe - long curly hair - holding wings of griffin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: as displayed before 1925

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken before 1925 by Gates; in Mémoire [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 6 August 2012] [refs.: APMH00079815]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Zebol [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_wierre_effroy.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

view of basin in context

Image Source: digital image of an old photograph of unrecorded source in http://membres.multimania.fr/histopale/wierre.htm [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of basin in context

Image Source: digital image of an old photograph reproduced in MÉMOIRES DU CANTON DE MARQUISE

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: edited version of a digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Zebol [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Eglise_de_wierre_effroy.JPG] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the font location in the southwest corner is marked as "1"

Image Source: digital image of an old photograph reproduced in MÉMOIRES DU CANTON DE MARQUISE

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00354BOU

Museum and Inventory Number: Historical Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer [near the Château, rue de Bernet (tel.: 21 80 00 80); open Wed.-Mon.]

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: [NB: coordinates and directions are for the church, but the font is in a museum] 62720 Vierre-Effroy, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Wierre-Effroy is located off the D232-D234-D238 crossroads, 12-14 km NE of Boulogne-sur-Mer town centre. The Boulogne-sur-Mer museum is housed in the Château, rue de Bernet (tel.: 21 80 00 80); open Wed.-Mon.

Font Location in Church: [now in a museum] The font is said to have been located originally in the SW corner of the nave

Date: ca. 1150?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font / Boulonnais font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Enlart (1902) identifies the four figures as "les quatre Éléments, accompagnés d'animaux attribuits (dragon, oiseau, poisson, lion)". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00079815]. Described and illustrated in Oursel (1904: 232 and pl. 102), who suggests a mid-12th century date. The MÉMOIRES DU CANTON DE MARQUISE [cf. web site] shows images of the font in the early days in the museum. On-site notes: rounded baptismal font made of Marquise limestone and located now in the museum in Boulogne-sur-Mer is originally from the parish church at Wierre Effroy. It is deeply carved in a strong Norman style and has four figures at the corners, their heads now broken off; in between the figures, large animals; the rim has a broad band of zig-zag with vegetal/plant motifs in the angles. The overall program is very Norman: figure 1): a bishop, his right hand raised in benediction, his left holds staff; the basin side has a lion with a bird on its back; fig. 2): a robed human figure with long, curly hair (Samson?), appears to hold the head of a serpent; the basin side has a dragon; fig. 3): human figure has hooded garment (monk?); his right hand holds the tail of a dragon, the left hand, its wings; the basin side has a dragon with a fish tail; fig. 4): robed human figure with long hair, holding the wings of a griffin; the basin side has a griffin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.7789, 1.7392

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 44.04″ N, 1° 44′ 21.12″ E

UTM: 31U 411112 5625996

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Marquise)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 13 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 75 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 102-104 cm*

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 60 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: the measurement of the rim was taken at the very top, before its widening after the first groove]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: There are two hinges on the rim, evidence of an old lid.

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

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

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

Enlart, Camille, Monuments réligieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région Picarde, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1895

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

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

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