Saint-Loup-Terrier / Saint-Loup-aux-Bois / St-Loup-Terrier
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2012 by havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Loup-Terrier_(Ardennes)_Église_Saint-Loup_vue_du_nord.JPG] [accessed 11 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François Goglins, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2014 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Loup-Terrier-FR-08-église-21.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2016]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Collins, 1981
Image Source: Collins (1981: pl. 32)
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: two of them appear to be male and crowned
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Collins, 1981
Image Source: Collins (1981: pl. 32)
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animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from its mouth - 4
Scene Description: the vegetation takes the form of palmettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Collins, 1981
Image Source: Collins (1981: pl. 32)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02481LOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: cf. Index entry for Bogny-sur-Meuse for related imagery and general shape
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Loup de Saint-Loup [formerly Saint-Loup-aux-Bois]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Loup of Limoges?
Church Notes: original church 12th-13thC; re-built 17thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078501]
Church Address: 08130 Saint-Loup-Terrier, France
Site Location: Ardennes, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Saint-Loup, formerly Saint-Loup-aux-Bois, lies off (E) the D987 (continues off the N51-E460), about 20 km S of Charleville-Mezières
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Rheims
Historical Region: Crêtes Préardennaises
Additional Comments: altered font? (the base is a replacement of the original)
Font Notes:
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Inventoried in the database Palissy [ref.: PM08000462] with date in the 12th century; decorated with four protruding human heads and a freeze of plamettes and animal heads. Illustrated in Collins (1981). Listed in Drake (2002) as a Mosan font of the Romanesque period. Only the basin is original in this font, the base probably added later when the original was lost or destroyed; the basin is cylindrical and shallow, with the four heads at 90-dergree angles characteristic of the fonts of this group. The ornamentation on the font at St-Loup appears similar to the one on the font at Bogny-sur-Meuse, although done by a less skilled hand: the lion head and palm-like prolongations of the Saint-Loup font look squat and clumsy, whereas those of the Bogny-sur-Meuse font are flowing, agile and dynamic. One could be a copy of, or an inspiration for, the other. The original metal staples to secure the lid are visible.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 616845 5492901
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.5774, 4.6163
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 34′ 38.64″ N, 4° 36′ 58.68″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Givet)
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * "Dimension approximative", Palissy [ref.: PM08000462]
LID INFORMATION
Notes: metal staples of the original cover still in the upper rim
REFERENCES
- Collin, Hubert, Champagne romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1981, pl. 32
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 176