Magny-en-Vexin

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view of font in context

Scene Description: seen through the side of the baldaquin
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

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human figure

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 August 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_(95),_église_Notre-Dame,_vue_depuis_le_nord-est.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_263.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]
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view of font and canopy, baldachin

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - plan

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: a very female angle holds the garments in the Baptism of Christ scene
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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ
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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: the Decapitation of the Baptist
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02763MAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1534
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: baldaquin font / attributed to Jean Grappin
Cognate Fonts: Trédrez-Locquémeau, and the later ones at Lampaul-Guimiliau, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Magny-en-Vexin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel, S aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Notes: original 13thC church burned down by the English in 1436; present church is 15th cent. but "was radically rebuilt in the 16C and has marked Renaissance features." (France, 1985). Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080113]: "époque de construction 13e siècle ; 16e siècle". [NB: Some sources name the church as "Notre-Dame", others, "Saint-Martin"]
Church Address: Parc naturel régional du Vexin français, 1 Rue Saint-Sauveur, 95420 Magny-en-Vexin, France -- Tel.: +33 1 34 67 03 28
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D86-D963 crossroads, 57 km NW of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Historical Region: Vexin français
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
Enlart (1902) mentions a baptism "figuré" through the depiction of John the Baptist on the font. In Bond (1908), after Enlart, referring to the stone canopy on this font [NB: Bond gives the departement as Eure]. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) mentions "les célèbres font baptismaux" dated 1534 but gives a brief description of the baldaquin and no detail of the font itself. The Phaidon guide (1985) mentions "some interesting baptismal fonts" contained in this church, one of which is the hexagonal font dated to 1534. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM95000410]: "Fonts baptismaux surmontés d'un baldaquin. Composés d'une cuve hexagonale reposant sur son piédestal hexagonal. L'édicule qui recouvre les fonts baptismaux comprend un soubassement supportant six colonnes reliées entre elles par des arceaux, au-dessus desquels règne une galerie ornée de statues : la Force, la Justice, la Science, la Vertu, etc. Le dôme qui recouvre l'ensemble est couronné par une statue de Saint Jean-Baptiste, probablement moderne. Sur les fûts des colonnes, de petits encorbellements soutiennent des groupes de statuettes : les Evangélistes, Sainte Véronique, la Décollation de Saint Jean-Baptiste, etc. [...] Fonts baptismaux et leur baldaquin, datés 1534, réalisés par un sculpteur de Gisors, Jean Graffin [...] restaurés en 1838. Nouvelle restauration vers 1995-1996". Malle (1994) lists the Magny-en-Vexin font as one of the few hexagonal fonts in France later than the 15th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 411507 5445573
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.157305, 1.786892
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 9′ 26.3″ N, 1° 47′ 12.81″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [1534]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV D 98
  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 301 (on the canopy)
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 764 footnote 3; p. 781
  • Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 21
  • Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 360