Montebourg

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BH: animal - mammal - unidentified - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Scene Description: resembles the snake-in-the-mouth motifs on the bases of medieval Scandinavian fonts and the lion heads with vegetation stemming from the mouths in northern Romanesque art

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - bear - head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: the 'ruffles' or manes are rather uncommon, if this is a lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

animal - mammal - simian - head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

Scene Description: stemming from the mouths of the protruding animal heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

Scene Description: seen here between the lion 'ruffles' and the monkey head

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - loop - 4 strand

Scene Description: 4-strand loops crossed by 4-strand band

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: with three of the animal heads visible here -- notice also the considerable damage to the upper rim area

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_de_Montebourg_-_Portail_(2).jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2013 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieMontebourgEglisePortailDetail.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2015 by Ladislaus Hoffner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montebourg_-_L'église_Saint-Jacques.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_de_Montebourg_-_Fonds_baptismaux_(2).jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 2000 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montebourg (Normandie, France). Ancien chapiteau reconverti en fonts baptismaux, dans l'église Saint-Jacques."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2013 by Ikmo-ned [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FranceNormandieMontebourgEgliseFontsBaptismaux.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the font and plain cover as photographed in 1953

Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [(NUMP) 53P01613] taken by Emmanuel-Louis Mas (photographe), in Mémoire [ref.: AP53P01613] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0962/sap01_53p01613_p.jpg] [accessed 22 May 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02744MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jacques

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: 3 place Saint-Jacques, 50310 Montebourg, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D42-D71-D974 crossroads, 8 km ESE of Valognes, 25 km SE of Cherbourg down the N13.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances

Historical Region: Cotentin, Basse-Normandie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Fourneaux, Rocquancourt [now at the Caen museum]. Some early English fonts [e.g.: Chaddesley Corbett, Eardisley] have a stylistic resemblance

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110459]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM50000682] as a former limestone capital re-cycled as baptismal font: "Chapiteau servant de fonts baptismaux [calcaire] [...] 12e siècle [...] Oeuvre anciennement datée du 11e siècle." Described and illustrated in "Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie" (1985), in the catalogue entry by Maylis Bayle as a baptismal font of the first third of the 12th century, who gives the fonts at Essay, Stogursey, Chaddesley Corbett and Eardisley as sharing elements of the ornamentation. On-site notes: the bucket-shaped basin is badly damaged at the upper rim and has four very worn animal/beast heads at 90-degree angles on the lower basin side; the upper half of the basin surface is covered in four-strand loops with a horizontal four-strand band running through them; between the heads, on the lower half, vegetation motifs. The carving is typical Norman work. The base, a plain column bearing the date "XIs", is a modern addition; if the "XIs" is to be interpreted as 11th century, it is too early [cf. date correction in Palissy supra]; the work is most probably from the 12th century. The web site www.mondes-normands.caen.fr describes and illustrates the font from Rocquancourt (Calvados) as having ths type of interlace as well: "interlacing motif in groups of eight knots [that] could be a symbolic reference to eternity linked to the rite of baptism" (ibid.). Only the interlace is somewhat similar; the rest of the design is quite different in these two fonts.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.48815, -1.378849

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 29′ 17.34″ N, 1° 22′ 43.85″ W

UTM: 30U 617410 5482986

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm* / 30 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 50 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm* / 50 cm**

Height of Base: 40 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / 87 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Palissy [ref.: PM50000682] [NB: the upper rim is missing and the base is definitely not the original]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: damage to the the rim caused by old staples of a earlier lid

REFERENCES

"Les siècles romans en Basse-Normandie", Printemps 1985, 92, Art de Basse-Normandie, 1985

Musset, Lucien, Normandie romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1974-1975

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941