Thugny-Trugny

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: two large five-leaf branches

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 January 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_00080.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - palmette - 3

Scene Description: very large palmette motifs seen here on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2012

Image Source: B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix in Mémoire [ref.: AP69P00726] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 8 January 2012]

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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches - palmette roundel

Scene Description: the artist has introduced the linked-circles motif from traditional interlace decoration

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: two of them visible here

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view of church exterior - east view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thugny-Trugny_(Ardennes)_église_Saint-Loup_PA00078532_chevet.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François Goglins, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2016 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thugny-Trugny-FR-08-église-03.jpg] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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view of font and cover - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_00081.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2012 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonts_baptismaux_00080.JPG] [accessed 12 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02482THU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Loup
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 08300 Thugny-Trugny, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Thugny-Trugny lies just SE of Rethel (take the D946 from Rethel to Biermes; there, take the D983 (E=left) direction Attigny; Thugny-Trugny is the first town to be found on that road)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Reims
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Braux, Humbert, etc.
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; re-built 16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078532]
Listed in Elart (1902). Illustrated in Collin (1981). Described in Drake (2002). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM08000564], and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP69P00726]. In Drake (2002) as a Mosan font with a round basin on multiple supports. Romanesque baptismal font of the Mosan group of which only the basin is original; it is round with four protruding heads at 90-degrees, much in the style of other Mosan fonts of this period; one of the heads appears to be male, bearded and crowned. Drake (ibid.) describes the ornamentation on the sides as "stylised fleur-de-lis on one side, recessed in the manner of this late group, with Mosan vine and palmette decoration on the other three. The base does not appear to match the basin is is probably a modern replacement.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.4839, 4.422
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 29′ 2.04″ N, 4° 25′ 19.2″ E
UTM: 31U 603211 5482349

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre bleue de Givet)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain, flat and round; of two parts; appears 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