Chereng / Cheren / Chérench / Chéreng / Chierench

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design element - motifs - foliage and fruit - acanthus

Scene Description: in roundels, all around

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Detail1.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Detail1.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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design element - patterns - ribbed

Scene Description: very shallow, with arrises between them

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Detail1.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: one of four heads on this font

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Tete3.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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human figure - male - head - bearded

Scene Description: one of four heads on this font

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Tete4.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - crowned

Scene Description: one of the four heads on this font

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Tete1.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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human figure - male - head - bearded - crowned

Scene Description: one of the four heads in this font [NB: is it a crown of thorns, or just the damaged top of a crown?]

Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Tete2.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Oursel (1994: pl. 98) [detail]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Oursel (1994: pl. 99)

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Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2014 by Jean-François [https://vogage-roman-art.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuves-baptismales-1-les-fonts-de-chereng.html] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2014 by Jean-François [https://vogage-roman-art.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuves-baptismales-1-les-fonts-de-chereng.html] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2014 by Jean-François [https://vogage-roman-art.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuves-baptismales-1-les-fonts-de-chereng.html] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2014 by Jean-François [https://vogage-roman-art.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuves-baptismales-1-les-fonts-de-chereng.html] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 712)

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Scene Description: [orig. photograph by Soil de Moriamé [ca. 1926?]]

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ronse (1929: fig. 28)

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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in the Bulletin Monumental (1846: 347)

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Lefrançois-Pillion (1940?)

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptistère. Fonts baptismaux"

Image Source: digital image of a June 1887 B&W photograph [MH0003695] by Médéric Mieusement, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00003695] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 12e siècle [...] Photographie conservée dans les boîtes vertes du service de la documentation des objets mobiliers."

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [Numéro du négatif 59w02147], in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W02147] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Oursel (1994: pl. 98)

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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Drake (2002: pl. 100)

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Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2014 by Jean-François [https://vogage-roman-art.blogspot.com/2014/03/cuves-baptismales-1-les-fonts-de-chereng.html] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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view of font - plan, elevation, section and sketch

Scene Description: Source caption: "Procédé non photographique [...] Dessin conservé dans les boîtes vertes du service de la documentation des objets mobiliers."

Image Source: digital image 11 July 2023 of a dated [unreadable from the source] drawing, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP59W02148] [accessed 18 July 2023]

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Image Source: digital image in Paroisse de l'Emmanuel (Pévèle) [http://paroisse.emmanuel.free.fr/Archives_hist/Chereng/Fonts/Fonts.JPG] [accessed 28 July 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02515CHE

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Vaast

Church Patron Saints: St. Vedast [aka Foster, Vaast, Vedastus]

Church Location: 26 rue Clotaire Duquennoy, 59142 Chéreng, France

Country Name: France

Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Chereng is off the D941, N of the A27-E42, half-way between Lille (France) and Tournai/ Doornik (Belgium)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille [earlier in the Diocèse de Cambrai, and Tournai]

Historical Region: La Pévèle, Châtellenie de Lille

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? / Mosan font?

Cognate Fonts: Other Tournai and Mosan fonts

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: church here documented 1145; re-built ca.1870

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A note and a drawing of this font appeared in the Bulletin Monumental (2e serie, t. 2, vol. 12, 1846, p. 346): "M. le directeur a présenté ensuite le dessin du font byzantin de Chéreng (Nord), dont il avait été question l'année dernière, à Lille, et dont il a depuis, grâce à l'obligeance de M. le Baron de Contencin, pu se procurer un dessin fidèle. Ce font très élégant, appartient à la classe des fonts pédicules, en se rapportant à la nomenclature employée par M. de Caumont, dans le sixième volume de son Cours d antiquités." Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy font here, without further details. Described as a "pièce superbe" by Cloquet (1890 and 1895) who considers it an anomaly yet to be explained, and reserves judgment by calling it an exception which confirms the rule: "cuve ronde monopédiculée [...] quatre têtes humaines en saillie sur leur pourtour". Enlart (1902) reports that similar fonts, made from the same stone, can be found in the area around Reims and wonders if it should not be attributed to the workshops of the Ardennes region where that type of stone abounds (as cited in Cloquet, 1895). Described simply as a Tournai font in Chastel (1966). Enlart (1902) lists it as a hemispheric basin with a square contour at the top created by the four heads which adorn the corners. The illustration in Lasteyrie (1929) shows the basin: two of the protrudings heads are visible, the one on the left side is male, crowned, with a short mane and bearded; the one on the right has long hair and is also male and bearded; the upper and lower rims of the basin have rope moulding motif; a third head can also be seen, without much detail; in between, lovely palmette motif quite similar to the one often found on some of the Tournai fonts. The thick pedestal of the basin is cylindrical and there is a lower base. Ronse (1929) suggests the probability that there had been four outer colonnettes that were removed [NB: the argument that a transition period in which the shafts were not used but the 'environment' for them was still kept in the design should be taken into consideration]. Ghislain (1986) describes it as a product of the Tournai workshops, but in a design closer to that of the Mosan fonts. In Lotthé (1940). Described and illustrated in Oursel (1994). Described and illustrated in Drake (2002), who lists it as "Tournai attribution in doubt". [NB: both photographic records from the 1920s (Ronse and Lasteyrie) show two iron staples from the old cover in the upper rim; they are no longer present in the later photographs of the font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 514526 5606633

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: the present cover is flat and round, apparently of brass -- The two loops/staples of the font cover are still in place in Lasteyrie's and Ronse's illustrations (both ca. 1929) and other sources, but are no longer there in later sources

REFERENCES

Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; r["References"]

Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; r["References"]

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

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; r["References"]

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929

Lefrançois-Pillion, Louise, Art roman en France: architecture, sculpture, peinture - arts mineurs, Paris: Guy Le Prat, [1945?]

Lotthé, Ernest, Les Eglises de la Flandre française [t.1. Au Nord de la Lys -- t. 2. Territoire de l'ancienne châtellenie de Lille], Lille: S.I.L.I.C., imprimeur de l'Evêché, 1940-1942

Oursel, Hervé, "Les fonts baptismaux de Chéreng, XIIe siècle", 1984, 17, Pays de Pévèle, 1984, pp. 3-5; r["References"]

Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929

Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; r["References"]

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928