Essay / Essai

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design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons

Scene Description: around the upper rim surface; much worn

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00738] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00738] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00738_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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design element - patterns - geometric

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00739] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00739] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00739_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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head, face or mask

Scene Description: animal? devil?

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00740] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00740] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00740_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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human figure - face, head or mask?

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00741] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00741] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00741_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00738] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00738] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00738_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2015 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essay_-_Église_Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul_-_7.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2015 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essay_-_Église_Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul_-_3.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2015 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essay_-_Église_Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul_-_5.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2008 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieEssayEglise.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: only the basin survives

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [No. tirage 61W00736] in Mémoire [ref.: AP61W00736] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/2519/sap83_61w00736_p.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00882ESS

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul d'Essay [originally from the parish church at Echuffley?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: rue Rœderer, 61500 Essay, France

Country Name: France

Location: Orne, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D31-D42-D326 crossroads, between Boitron (N) and Leuilly-le-Bison (S), in the municipality and WNW of Mêle-sur-Sarthe, NNE of Alençon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayeux

Historical Region: Basse-Normandie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Essay

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

Church Notes: the tithes of Echuffley belonged originally to the abbaye de Lonlay [source: Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Normandie, Volume 2, 1841, pp. 267, 271]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a 16th century baptismal font ornamented with geometric motifs, originally from the old parish church at Echufflei. Described in Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie (1985: p. 133, entry no. 366) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period ["cliché Moitet (Arch. de l'Orne)"] decorated with heads and mouldings in the crossbars. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM61000330]: " fonts baptismaux [...] Seule la cuve subsiste ; le pied est manquant [...] 1er quart 12e siècle". Noted in Mondes Noemandes [www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/france/Patrimoine_architectural/Normandie/Campagne_alencon/MeleSurSarthe/1813Essay/index.htm] [accessed 7 July 2017] as a baptismal font originally from Echuffley: "Une cuve baptismale du XIIe siècle, conservée dans cette église, provient de l'église d'Echuffley, paroisse rattachée à Essay en 1840. Réalisée dans un bloc de pierre massif, elle est ornée d’un décor géométrique, d'exécution malhabile, composé de losanges rehaussés de billes rondes, coupé par des têtes animales (lion, singe, âne)." The roughly cylindrical font is damaged at several spots of the underbowl; on the sides, as indicated in the sources above, is an area of geometric pattern that features a rectangle in which is an X with four balls in the spandrels; there is one large and crudely carved human face and, next to it, an animal (?) head or mask with long ears or horns, either an animal or a devil. [NB: we have not been able to locate recent images of the font; in Palissy's set the old basin appears placed on wooden planks on the ground] pattern of nested chevrons on the upper rim surface;

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.541852, 0.243459

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 32′ 30.67″ N, 0° 14′ 36.45″ E

UTM: 31U 296547 5380197

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

"Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-