Saint-Venant / Papingem / St-Venant

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Last Supper - 13 Apostles present

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - kiss of Judas

Scene Description: on the left half of the second side; the Flagellation occupies the other half

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation

Scene Description: a/p De Caumont's identification; the scene occupies the right half of the second side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Longinus - Stephaton

Scene Description: The right angle has a building, possible the New Jerusalem(?). There are two persons on step-ladders nailing/releasing (?) Christ's hands; there are also two half figures at the foot of the cross (Mary and John?) but are too damaged to permit identification [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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B05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - entombment

Scene Description: a/p De caumont's identification, on the left half of the basin side. The right half shows three figures at the tomb (the Three Marys?) and two armed figures guarding the tomb

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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B06: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body

Scene Description: Occupies the right half of the basin side; the left half depicts the entombement

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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LB01: design element - patterns - concentric lines

Scene Description: at the lower base, between the lion heads

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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LBH01: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a/p Leclercq's drawing; this base was modern reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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LBH02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a/p Leclercq's drawing; this base was modern reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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LBH03: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a/p Leclercq's drawing; this base was modern reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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LBH04: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a/p Leclercq's drawing; this base was modern reconstruction

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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R01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on two of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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R02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: a lion head, foliage and circles on two of the spandrels of the upper surface of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a drawing ca. 1843-1850 by "J. Leclerq del." in full detail from the original]

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view of basin - drawing

Image Source: Oursel (1994: p. [228])

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view of basin - drawing

Image Source: Drake (2002: figs. 7-10 on p. 56)

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais.- France." [NB: the modern church that replaced the one totally destroyed in WWI]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 March 2017 by Pierre André [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Venant.-_Église_Saint-Venant_(1).JPG] [accessed 13 May 2022]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Venant Saint-Venant Pas-de-Calais.- France." [NB: the modern church that replaced the one totally destroyed in WWI]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 March 2017 by Pierre André [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Venant.-_Église_Saint-Venant_(2).JPG] [accessed 13 May 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint-Venant, l'église." [NB: the church that was totally destroyed in WWI]

Image Source: digital image [SPA 19 LO 1373] of a Négatif, plaque de verre, by Marcel Adrien & Léon Lorée, in the SPCA [section photographique et cinématographique de l'armée] (1917-1918) [https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/saint-venant-l-eglise-legende-d-origine.html#] [accessed 13 May 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Photograph of the cast copy (at the Musée d'Arras) before its destruction in the First World War (in Ronse, 1929)

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 45) [orig. by Soil de Moriamé]

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Scene Description: Photograph [date unknown] by "A. Deloge. Brux." of the cast copy at the museum in Arras, reproduced in Rolland [ca. 1928] -- the copy itself was also destroyed

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Rolland (1928?)

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view of font

Scene Description: this is the only photograph we have of the actual font

Image Source: digital image of a Négatif original noir et blanc; Support verre; Gélatino-bromure;Cassure (deux morceaux) [MH0029126] -- author: Camille Enlart ca. 1902 (?) -- in the Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (archives photographiques) diffusion RMN [Ref.: APMH00029126] -- http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 20 Jan 2010]

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Image Source: digital image of a Négatif original noir et blanc; Gélatino-bromure [(NUMP) MH0194213] taken in 1857 by Service Commercial, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH0194213] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2680/sap01_mh0194212_p.jpg] [accessed 20 Jan 2010]

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view of font - plan and section

Scene Description: plan, etc. of the font made in 1857; the font was destroyed in 1917

Image Source: digital image of a Négatif original noir et blanc; Gélatino-bromure [(NUMP) MH0194212] taken in 1857 by Service Commercial, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH0194212] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2680/sap01_mh0194212_p.jpg] [accessed 20 Jan 2010]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00815SAI

Church/Chapel: Old parish church [destroyed]

Church Patron Saints: St. Venant

Church Location: new church address & coordinates: 28 rue de Guarbecque, 62350 Saint-Venant, France

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: St-Venant is located at the confluence of the D186-D916-D937 roads, 14 km NW of Béthune, about 40 kms W of Lille

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Flandres francaise

Font Location in Church: [the font was totally destroyed in WWI]

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font

Cognate Fonts: The font at Termonde

Credit and Acknowledgements: BSI acknowledges the generous help of M. l'abbé, M. le Maire and the city council of the town of St-Venant, especially that of Mme. Thérèse Chuffart, maire-adjointe, who provided us with all the documentation available in their archives about the sadly-lost font.

Church Notes: The present (June 2000) is a new building, the previous one having been totally destroyed in the First World War.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Putte (1847), in his article on the font at Zillebeke, cites the description of the font at Saint-Venant by M. Woillez in the 'Memoires des antiquaires de la Morinie' of 1835. Putte (ibid.) discusses the similarities of the font at Zillebeke with those of Saint-Venant, Termonde and Zedelhem. The Tournai font at the old church of St-Venant was destroyed, together with the church itself, in 1918 during the first World War. This font is said to have been one of the finest examples from the Tournai workshops. The drawings by Leclerq [see "Notes by authors" below] show a basin with the following scenes: 1)Last Supper (with 12 Apostles at the table, to both sides of Christ, and Judas lying down at Christ's feet; 2)Treason of Judas and Flagellation; 3)Crucifixion with two thieves and Roman soldiers plus church building (new Jerusalem?) to the right; and 4)Entombment of Christ (being carried horizontally stiff and crowned!). soldiers guardin the tomb, the Three Marys at the Tomb in the presence of an angel (?). The spandrels of the basin top have ornate designs, all different; the capitals of the base colonnettes have three-leaf motif; the colonnettes themselves were nonconstructional and had diamond patterns on them; the lower base had lion (?) heads at the corners and a concentric circle pattern between them. An original photograph of the font [source unknown but bears the name "Mme Mullet, St-Venant"] shows the Crucifixion side; the caption to the side of the photograph, a text apparently from the study done by the Commission des Antiquites dept. du Pas-de-Calais, rejects the Therouanne provenance apparently claimed by some. Adolphe Laurent Joanne's Itineraire général de la France: Le Nord (Paris, 1869): 114, mentions an 11th-century baptismal font in this church, "ornés de das-reliefs représentant la Passion". Noted in Chrétien Dehaisnes' Le Nord monumental et artistique (Lille, 1897): 106, as "une véritable recherche de la vérité dans l'expression, quelque grossier que sois le dessin". [NB: Paul Rolland mentions and illustrates a cast copy in the museum of Arras; cf. Rolland, 1924, caption on p. 559, also destroyed]. Ronse (1929) informs that both the original font and its cast copy were destroyed in the war [i.e., WWI]. Ronse (ibid.) reproduces a photograph by Soil de Moriamé of the cast copy at Arras taken before the destruction of the copy; Rolland reproduces a photograph -of the Arras copy- signed "A. Deloge, Brux." Listed with an illustration by Enlart in Palissy [ref.: PM62001869]: "fonts baptismaux [...] 11e siècle [...] Détruits en 1917." Described and illustrated with a drawing in Oursel (1994), who cites B. de Montfaucon's (1729-1733) entry in 'Les Monuments de la monarchie françoise'. Described and illustrated with a drawing in Drake (2002). In Torrens Alzu (2006). [NB: an entry in Geocache [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3YAQK_leglise?guid=2c1dd2dd-0a61-420c-92bc-317a1f813b53] [accessed 13 May 2022] notes: "Détruite pendant la première guerre, l'église de Saint-Venant fut reconstruite après 1918 [...] On y trouve à l'intérieur des fonts baptismaux du XIe siècle (art roman) qui proviennent de Vieux-Berquin."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.62126, 2.54152

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 37′ 16.54″ N, 2° 32′ 29.47″ E

UTM: 31U 467568 5607809

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 90 x 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [the description by M. Woillez, cited in Putte (1847) gives "environ trois pieds de largeur et la même dimension an hauteur] -- The font at St-Venant must have had measurements very similar to its sister Tournai font at Termonde (see also related fonts at St. Mary Bourne, Winchester, etc.)

REFERENCES

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

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

Montfaucon, Bernard de, Les monumens de la monarchie françoise, qui comprennent l'histoire de France avec les figures de chaque règne que l'injure des temps a épargnées [...], Paris: J.-M. de Gandouin et P.-F. Giffart, 1729-1733

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

Putte, F. van de (abbé), Bruges: Imprimé chez Vandecasteele-Werbrouck, 1847

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

Torrens Alzu, Miguel A., "Malhereusement disparu: requiem por la pila de Saint-Venant, chef-d'oeuvre de los talleres de Tournai", 3 (Diciembre 2006), Románico: revista de arte de Amigos del Románico, 2006, pp. 36-41; r["References"]