Bogny-sur-Meuse / Braux

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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
human figure - head
human figure - head
human figure - head
human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 4 April 2014 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_collégiale_Braux_00496.JPG] [accessed 2 November 2023]
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view of basin - side
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1969 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP69P00523] [accessed 2 November 2023]
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view of basin and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bogny-sur-Meuse (Ardennes, France), lieu-dit de Braux, collégiale St Vivent, fonts baptismaux classés M.H."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 4 April 2014 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_collégiale_Braux_00496.JPG] [accessed 2 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church interior - looking east
view of font
viewe of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1962] B&W photograph by Gabriel Betocq, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00119789] [accessed 2 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 02476BOG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ancienne Collégiale Saint Vivent de Braux [aka Collégiale de Saint-Pierre-des-Liens / Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Vivent]
Church Patron Saints: St. Vivent [formerly dedicated to St. Peter]
Church Location: Collégiale Saint Vivent de Braux, 12, place Danton, 08120 Bogny-sur-Meuse, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Bogny-sur-Meuse is 10 km N of Charleville-Mezieres, 50 kms S of Dinant. There are several sites with interesting Norman fonts in the area.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims et Ardennes
Historical Region: Braux
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: see the fonts at Perthes, St-Loup-Terrier
Church Notes: ancient Carolingian collegiate church; present church said to have been founded in the 9thC by Ebbon, bishop of Reims, with dedication to St. Peter -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078349]: "Eglise de Braux, y compris la crypte [...] 13e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 18e siècle"
Font Notes:
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Alfred Chevallier's article 'Notes sur quelques fonts baptismaux des Ardennes', in the Revue historique ardennaise, Volum 8 (1901: 303-305) includes the baptismal font at Braux: "A Braux, canton de Monthermé, la cuve, qui repose sur un socle carré est ornée aussi de figures humaines entre lesquelles on voit des arcatures à plein cintre, sur des colonnes avec chapiteaux, et des feuillages ayant une grande ressemblance avec ceux des fonts de Perthes -- A plate in the same source illustrates a number of them, including that of Braux among them. Illustrated in Collins (1981). Listed in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Mosan group, round and on a single-support base. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM08000074]: "Ces fonts sont composés d'une cuve cylindrique ornée alternativement de rinceaux et d'arcatures et portant quatre têtes saillantes. [...] 11e siècle [...] Objet indiqué à Braux sur la liste départementale : Braux, lieu-dit de la commune de Bogny-sur-Meuse, suite à une fusion de communes." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP69P00523, APMH00119789]. This font belongs to the old collegiate church of Braux; the basin is round and shallow, decorated with four protruding heads carved at 90-degree angles on the sides; the space in between the heads has four different motifs -only two are visible in our sources-, one shows a lion (?) head from which prolong lines which curl up forming palm-tree-like motifs; the other visible side has a blind arcade of five round arches; raised on a square pedestal, obviously not the original base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.850833, 4.767778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 51′ 3″ N, 4° 46′ 4″ E
UTM: 31U 627080 5523545
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (pierre de Givet)
Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM08000074]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Collin, Hubert, Champagne romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1981
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902