Magny-en-Vexin

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_60952.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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human figure

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: the Decapitation of the Baptist

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_60950.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_221.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_222.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_223.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_224.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_254.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Scene Description: a very female angle holds the garments in the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_53.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - south view

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 church exterior in context - northeast view

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 interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_(95),_église_Notre-Dame,_plan.png] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_60951.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Match 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magny-en-Vexin_Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité_60952.JPG] [accessed 15 May 2017]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: seen through the side of the baldaquin

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02763MAG

Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Magny-en-Vexin

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: Parc naturel régional du Vexin français, 1 Rue Saint-Sauveur, 95420 Magny-en-Vexin, France -- Tel.: +33 1 34 67 03 28

Country Name: France

Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France

Directions to Site: Located off the D86-D963 crossroads, 57 km NW of Paris

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise

Historical Region: Vexin français

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel, S aisle, W end

Date: 1534

Century and Period: 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 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"]

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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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.157305, 1.786892

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 9′ 26.3″ N, 1° 47′ 12.81″ E

UTM: 31U 411507 5445573

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: [1534]

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985