Cires-les-Mello / Cires-lès-Mello
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cires-lès-Mello (60), église Saint-Martin, bas-côté sud, fonts baptismaux"
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de Cires-lès-Mello, Oise, France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 1 May 2009 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Cires-lès-Mello1.JPG] [accessed 21 February 2025]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cires-lès-Mello (60), église Saint-Martin, bas-côté sud, vue vers l'ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 10 May 2015 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cires-lès-Mello_(60),_église_Saint-Martin,_bas-côté_sud,_vue_vers_l'ouest_2.JPG] [accessed 21 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02216CIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?) / 16th cemtury (?), Medieval - Early Modern
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; modified 15thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00114595]
Church Address: 3-9 Rue des Petits Prés, 60660 Cires-lès-Mello, France
Site Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Cires-les-Mello is near Mello, S of Amiens, about 25 km SE of Beauvais down the D12, about 6 km down the road from Muoy
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Beauvais
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The stone font has the basin lined with lead and appears to have figures on the sides of the basin. (Capronnier, 1995, p. 117) [NB: unable to confirm this description and font -- the baptismal font in this church, located at the west end of the south aisle, is of typical French 16th-century design, oval of overall shape, basin divided into two compartments, pedestal base; there is a broad patterned moulding on the stem of the base, otherwise the font appears plain; flat oval wooden cover with separate openings to each internal basin.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.275169, 2.360022
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 16′ 31″ N, 2° 21′ 36″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: oval, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: double basins
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Capronnier, Jean-Claude, Picardie gothique, Tournai: Casterman, 1995, p. 117