Nouvion-sur-Meuse

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2

Scene Description: Ouroboros?

Image Source: Drake (2002)

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animal - mammal - lion - head - 3

Scene Description: three small lion (?) heads at the convergence of the large circles which adorn one of the basin sides

Image Source: Collins (1981: 26)

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design element - motifs - circle - intersecting - 4

Scene Description: with lion (?) heads at the link points

Image Source: Collins (1981: 26)

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design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: Source caption: "La cuve baptismale romane de Nouvion-sur-Meuse"

design element - motifs - vine - grape - with grape bunches

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux en pierre noire sculptée [...] 12e siècle"

Image Source: digital image of a 1969 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP69P00638] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital image of a 1969 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP69P00638] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "L'Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption, à Nouvion-sur-Meuse."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 March 2012 by Tadeo59370 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Nouvion-sur-Meuse.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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view of font

Image Source: Collins (1981: 25)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: edited detail of a 8 July 2023 digital photograph by Léo Davy in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA008_20230800023] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale. 11e siècle

Image Source: edited detail of a 8 July 2023 digital photograph by Léo Davy in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA008_20230800023] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux, vue générale. 11e siècle

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP08W01147] [accessed 26 January 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02478NOU

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Location: 1b Rue Etienne Dolet, 08160 Nouvion-sur-Meuse, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ardennes, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Nouvion-sur-Meuse is a small town a few kms S of Charleville-Mezieres (Ardennes) off the D33/D133, just E of Flize.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font

Cognate Fonts: the fragment at Tegelen, in the Netherlands has similar dragons or ouroboros

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078478]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Inventoried and illustrated in the database Palissy [ref.: PM08000364] and Mémoire [ref.:AP08W01147] [accessed 26 January 2025] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 8 January 2012] with date in the 11th cerntury. Illustrated in Collins (1981). Described and illustrated in Drake (2002) as a baptismal font of the Mosan group mounted on a multisupport base; the round basin is decorated with four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles [Drake (ibid., p. 41ff) describes these as 'cylindrical heads']; between the heads the sides of the basin are decorated with a variety of motifs: on one side two possible dragons [ouroboros?] have their bodies entangled; on another three lion (?) heads appear at the linking points of four large circles filled with striated pattern; Drake (ibid.) mentions tendril, foliage and flowers or grapes as well. The base, which is made of a different stone, consists of a broad central shaft with four angle colonnettes, all plain but for a moulding towards the bottom forming crude bases. The wooden font cover is flat, round and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 629496 5506886

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire viséen)

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (with heads) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

Diameter (inside rim): 90 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM08000364] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 8 January 2012]]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNtes]

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

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-01-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.