Vimy
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animal - mammal - lion
Scene Description: several, in an arrangement similar to those in the font at Lincoln cathedral
view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern re-built church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2006 by Maitre So (?) [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Vimy-eglise.jpg] [accessed 15 June 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: the old church of Vimy before its destruction in WWI
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W postcard of a photograph by "DR", in [www.lejsl.com/social/2011/06/26/je-m-appelle-vimy] [accessed 15 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 00817VIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin [NB: both the church and the font were destroyed in WWI; re-built]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: present church address: Rue Rouget-de-Lisle, 62580 Vimy, France
Country Name: France
Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the N17, 10 km N of Arras (dir. Lens)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Church Notes: The church was destroyed in World War I.
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1902: 777n1, 779) lists the Vimy font as a square Tournai mounted on a five-column base, its basin sides ornamented with animals. Described in Oursel (1994: 226) as having a decorative program similar to the font at Lincoln cathedral, the lions furnished with heads proportionally too small for the bodies. Oursel (ibid.) suggests a dating in the first quarter of the 12th century for the disappeared font of Vimy. [NB: the town of Vimy was totally destroyed during World War I, including the church and the font, like the one at Saint-Venant]. Listed in Drake (2002: 177) as a baptismal font of the Tournai group. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001881] as a sandstone baptismal of the 12th century, "Détruits en 1914."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 486589 5580154
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Notes on Measurements: [cf. Index entries for other Tournai fonts with similar measurements]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
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
Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994