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angel

Scene Description: a/p Corblet's description

Image Source: digital image of a Frise des fonts baptismaux en marbre noir dans l'église de Coucy le Château : [dessin] / E. Boesvilvald, in GALLICA [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7741171d] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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animal - fighting

Scene Description: Devouring each other

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a/p Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

human figure

Scene Description: "personnages d'apparence fantastique" (Corblet, 1881-1882) [cf. FontNotes]

human figure - female

Scene Description: "au-dessus d'une main étendue à plat" (Corblet, 1881-1882) [cf. FontNotes]

human figure - head

Scene Description: "têtes diadémées" (Corblet, 1881-1882) [cf. FontNotes]

human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: a/p Pudelko's illustration

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2007 by Szeder László [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FR-02-Coucy07.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing [Crayon noir repassé à la plume encre noire, lavis encre noire] [Amédée Piette] in the Archives départementales de l'Aisne [https://archives.aisne.fr] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of an undated drawing [Crayon noir repassé à la plume encre noire, lavis encre noire] [Amédée Piette] in the Archives départementales de l'Aisne [https://archives.aisne.fr] [accessed 5 May 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Numéro du tirage 02W00848] by F. Gates, in Mémoire [ref.: AP02W00848] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP02W00848] [accessed 16 February 2023]

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Numéro du tirage 02W00849] in Mémoire [ref.: AP02W00849] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP02W00849] [accessed 16 February 2023]

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Image Source: digital image of a 1940 B&W postcard, photograph by Christian Chauny [https://en.geneanet.org/postcards/view/7843606#0] [accessed 16 February 2023]

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view of projection

Scene Description: the drawing by E. Boesvilvald

INFORMATION

FontID: 00380COU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sauver

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Church Location: Impasse St Sauveur, 02380 Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, Aisne

Country Name: France

Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Coucy-le-Chateau is located off the D5-D13 crossroads, N of the D1, 20 km N of Soissons, about 20 km WSW of Laon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin

Historical Region: Le Laonnois / Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1250?

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Lesquielles Saint-Germain, Montdidier, etc.

Church Notes: 12thC church. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115618]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Roger et al. (1844): "Les fonts baptismaux, en marbre noir, sont anciens et fort beaux." In Melleville (1848). In Fleury (1878-1882). In Joanne (1879) as "remarquables". Included by Cloquet (1895) among the Tournai fonts which have a multiple-column base, in the Aisne dept. Enlart (1902) describes it as "belle cuve baptismale en marbre noir du milieu du XIIIe siècle; six colonnettes entourent un pilier central." The illustration in Pudelko (1932) shows a not very common type of font, tall and narrow, the basin octagonal with large heads at four of the corners and other figures or animals at the remaining four, while the sides of the basin appear to have foliage motifs; the base is made of a central column and at least EIGHT -not six- beautifully executed colonnettes with delicate leaf-motif capitals; the bases of the colonnettes rest on an octagonal lower base or plinth. Corblet (1881-1882) dates it to the 12th century and uses Édouard Fleury's description , which mentions, besides the corner heads/masks, angels, persons of fantastic appearance, tiara-ed heads, animals devouring each other, a female figure over a flat open hand, all of them accompanied by varied foliage motifs (in Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 120). Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes and illustrates the font, which is indeed octagonal, as eight are the number of the colonnettes surrounding the central support. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02000326] as a stone font of the 13th century. [NB: this is not a "Tournai font" as the type is usually understood]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.5189, 3.32527

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 31′ 8.04″ N, 3° 19′ 30.97″ E

UTM: 31U 523543 5485193

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (black)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

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

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

Fleury, Edouard, La France archéologique: antiquités et monuments du département de l'Aisne (4e partie), Laon: Chez H. Menu, librarire, 1878-1882

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent, Géographie du département de l'Aisne avec une carte coloriée et 20 gravures, Paris: Libraririe Hachette et Cie., 1879

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent, Itinéraire général de la France: La Normandie, Paris: Libraririe L. Hachette et Cie., 1867

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927

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