Fraillicourt

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: very shallow, all around

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: Photo caption: "La façade nord de l'église fortifiée. On remarque (assez difficilement, il est vrai) une date inscrite en briques vitrifiées ou plus sombres : 1858. Le "1" et le "8" sont à gauche d'une fenêtre, et le "5" et le "8" à droite."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02789FRA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame
Church Location: 08220 Fraillicourt, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Fraillicourt is located near Thiérache, in the CCI of Sedan, canton de Chaumont Poncien in an area clustered with interesting fonts of the Ardennes group.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims?
Historical Region: Crêtes Préardennaises
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the gallery stairs
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Gothic?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: Other such in the Ardennes and surrounding areas of Champagne
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078439]: "12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 15e siècle"
The present font here consists of a round -somewhere between hemispherical and cylindrical- basin decorated with a shallow arcade of rounfd arches on columns with simple capitals; the lower part of the columns continues on the underbowl; roll moulding at the centre ring position, plain circular stem and moulded lower base alos round. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with a hinged opening to provide access to the inner well. The font is located by the stairs to the west gallery. Noted in Collin (1981) as a notable one in a group of Ardennes fonts in the style of Tournai. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000200]: "Cuve cylindrique en pierre jaune à décor d'arcatures avec couvercle de bois moderne. [...] 13e siècle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.667218, 4.164242
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 40′ 1.99″ N, 4° 9′ 51.27″ E
UTM: 31U 584008 5502280

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (pierre de Meuse/Givet)
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM08000200]: "h = 90 ; d = 90 (Dimensions approximatives)"]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Collin, Hubert, Champagne romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1981