Hautmont / Altus mons

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animal - fabulous animal or monster

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2001

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Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (26 February, 2001)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2001

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Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (26 February, 2001)

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: on the right, facing an unidentified quadruped

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 August 2009 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hautmont_fonds.JPG] [accessed 8 April 2016]

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animal - mammal - quadruped - unidentified - passant

Scene Description: on the left, facing the lion: a horse?

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font in context

Scene Description: next to the statue of John the Baptist

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02094HAU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: place Général de Gaulle, 59330 Hautmont, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Haumont is located 5 km SW of the centre of Maubeuge, about 35 km E of Valenciennes, off the N49 east. There are other interesting fonts (Wassigny, etc.) in the area
Historical Region: L'Avesnois -- Nord
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, behind a metal railing
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? / Ardennes-type?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to C.S. Drake for his photograph and help documenting this font
Church Notes: 7thC original abbey here; 9thC raided by Danes; re-built -- parish church originally 16thC; re-built 19thC
Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM59000692]: "fonts baptismaux [...] représentation animalière (cheval, de profil) ; être fabuleux (griffon, de profil) ; feuille [...] 12e siècle". Noted in 'Cuves baptismales et fonts baptismaux : évolution formelle avant le XVIe siècle' [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/CATALOGUES/fontsbapt/fontsbapt_histav16e/html/fontsbapt_histav16e.html] [accessed 8 April 2016]. Described and illustrated in Drake (2002: 48, 51, 53, 59, 176 and pl. 109) as "unique among Tournai fonts for its portrayal of a figure straight out of Classical mythology, the centaur"; Drake (ibid.) classes this font as "not conclusively" a product of the Tournai School on account of: 1)its being more box-like, 2)the flat raised portion of the relief, as opposed to the more rounded approach of this school, 3)the very shallow low-relief of the carving, 4)the organisation of the figures, their orientation and their distribution on the sides of the basin, as well as other details, all of which make Drake place this font in the Tournai group with a question mark. It is a square mounted font with single round pedestal base; each side of the basin is divided in two by a colonnette, each space occupied by a fabulous creature; on one of the visible sides, on the right, the left portion contains an avian-sort-of-dragon (the body looks not at all serpent-like but more turkey-like) facing right; in the right a centaur aims its arrown to the left; to the left, on the next side, more avian-dragon like figures; to the right, on the next side, a passant quadruped on the left half faces a lion on the right; the rounded underbowl has leaf motifs at the sides that correpond to the angles of the basin; the central shaft is cylindrical and totally plain; the lower base is a thick round moulding with leaf motifs that correspond to those on the underbowl; there appears to be a removable metal lining for the basin. Oursel (1994: 226) and Drake (letter to BSI, 26 August 1998) point out the shallow carving resembling a lino-cut.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.25101, 3.92085

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Meuse/Givet)
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome brass (?) pudding-shaped cover; modern?

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994