Berneuil

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - 16 arches - round arches

Scene Description: Enlart's ill. in Lasteyrie

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 718)

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles?

Scene Description: Eight in total, under the 16 arches of the basin side alternating with foliage motifs; Enlart and Zarnecki identify St. Peter

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 718)

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B03: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: Eight such motifs under the 16 arches of the basin side, alternating with human figures

Image Source: Lasteyrie (1929: fig. 718)

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Berneuil : fonts baptismaux. - Extrait de "La Picardie historique et monumentale"."

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Soyez (1893-1938) in the Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Dom. 13 [https://patrimoine.abbeville.fr/collection/item/14339-berneuil-fonts-baptismaux-extrait-de-la-picardie-historique-et-monumentale?offset=18] [accessed 10 February 2025]

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Scene Description: showing a drawing of the lost cover

Image Source: illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: fig. 6 on p. 541)

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Scene Description: in 1850

Image Source: 1850 ink-on-paper drawing by Aimé or Louis Duthoit, now in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens [ref.: MP Duthoit X-149] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0603/m081201_0017705_p.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2012]

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Scene Description: pre-1914

Image Source: Négatif noir et blanc ; support verre; gélatino-bromure; by Georges Durand, in Mémoire [ref.: MH0024740] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 2 July 2012]

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Image Source: photograph in www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 2 July 2012]

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Scene Description: in the nave, looking east

Image Source: 1850 ink-on-paper drawing by Aimé or Louis Duthoit, now in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens [ref.: MP Duthoit X-157] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0603/m081201_0017721_p.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02517BER

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Country Name: France

Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Berneuil is about 30 kms NW of Amiens, in the arrondissement de Doullens

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1150-1175?

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Lavacquerie and at Hetomesnil; also lead fonts at St-Evroult-de-Monfort (Orne), Espaubourg, Aubin, Lombez (France), and Brookland (U.K.) [cf. FontNotes].

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There is an ink-on-paper 1850 drawing of this font and its cover by either Aimé or Louis Duthoit, originally from the 'Collection privée, Duthoit, 1912', now in the Musée de Picardie, Amiens [ref.: MP Duthoit X-149] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr] [accessed 2 July 2012]. Noted and illustrated in Soyez (1893-1938). Violet-le-Duc (1875) describes and illustrates it as a lead font of the 12th century with an arcade around its side containing alternately standing figures [not identified] and tall plant/tree motifs; Violet-le-Duc illustrates the font mounted on a base which he describes as being of a much later date and with a conical cover "de plomb probablement et de forme conique" [lost] which has now [ca. 1875] been replaced "par un chapeau de menuiserie du XVIe siècle". Duchemin (1890) notes some similarities betwee the fonts at Bourg-Achard, Plomber and Visme, all in France. Lethaby (1893) remarks the similarity of this font with the one at Tidenham, Gloucestershire. Chastel (1966) calls it one of several ornamented fonts made of lead plates soldered together. Enlart (1902) dates it to the 12th century and mentions the ornamentation of an arcade around the basin sides and the depiction of St. Peter on it. Illustrated in Lasteyrie (1929) after Enlart. Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957) who dates to the third quarter of the twelfth century and, like Enlart, identifies St. Peter as the repeated figure. Illustrated by Georges Durand in Mémoire [ref.: MH0024740] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 2 July 2012]. The Patrimoine de France database [Réf.: PM60000962] [www.patrimoine-de-france.org/oeuvres/richesses-80-23165.html#ville] [accessed 2 April 2010] gives the fonts at Hétomesnil and Lavacquerie as cognates, though not identical.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.095929, 2.170958

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 5′ 45.34″ N, 2° 10′ 15.45″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th century?

Notes: Viollet-le-Duc complained that a 16th-century "chapeau de menuiserie" had replaced the original lead conical lid.

REFERENCES

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

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Duchemin, Pierre, Histoire de Bourg-Achard, Pont-Audemer: Imprimerie Ve E. Dugas, 1890

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

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

Lethaby, William Richard, Leadwork, old and ornamental, and for the most part English [...] with illustrations, London; New York: Macmillan & co., 1893

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868

Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957