Sains-en-Amienois No. 1 / Sains-en-Amiénois

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design element - architectural - capital - water-leaf capital - 4

Scene Description: ending in a ball-in-socket (?) motif below

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - spur?

Scene Description: some motif, even the base of a column, at 90-degree angles

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of church interior - chancel - southeast view

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view of font

Scene Description: a very odd design; the secondary basin looks like an afterthought [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02795SAI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saints Fuscien, Victoric et Gentien
Church Location: 80680 Sains-en-Amiénois, Somme, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located about 10 kms S of Amiens down the D7, past St-Fuscien; the road continues to Estrées-sur-Noye, etc. Enlart lists another font in Sains, a Tournai-like font.
Historical Region: Amiénois
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 15th century [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
This font is probably the one mentioned by Ch. Salmon, secrétaire du Congrès scientifique, of Amiens, in the Bulletin monumental, vol. 35, 1869, 'mélanges d'archéologie', p. 198: "M. Salmon a mentionné des fonts en pierre du XIIe siècle se trouvant dans l'église de Sains, à 2 lieues d'Amiens, et qui ont été fort bien restaurés par M. le doyen de cette paroisse, M. l'abbé Messio." Included by Enlart (1902) in a list of "cuves baptismales doubles". The old font of this church is not, however, a typical double-font, as seen in many parts of France; This one appears to be an early -or idiosyncratic- model of the kind: it consists of a 'normal' font with a square tahle-top but a rounded underbowl; from the corners of the square top stem down water-leaf capitals that appear to have had colonnettes below but never actually did; they correspond to the angles of the square lower base, where there is no connection either, but fur spurs or similar motifs located at 90-degree angles; the stem itself is quasi-cylindrical and has a large roll moulding at the bottom; attached to the lower part of the stem and the lower base of this font is an appendage of irregular pentagonal shape with plain vertical sides; even though it looks totally out of place, it does nonetheless appear to be part of the same stone block, carved out of it. The whole stands on a rectangular plinth or lower base. The Inventaire général, inventaire topographique (Amiens métropole), Région Picardie, 2007 -- Enquêteur(s) et rédacteur(s) : Barbedor Isabelle [http://inventaire.picardie.fr/docs/PALISSYIM80000811.html?qid=sdx_q0&mode=print] [accessed 5 June 2014] notes: "Fonts baptismaux, fin 12e siècle ou début 13e siècle, adjonction possible d´une piscine début 15e siècle, restauration 1er quart 20e siècle (?), Cl. MH 1907". [NB: is it really a composite font?]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 451004 5518596

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted) [B1] -- pentagonal (unmounted) [B2]
Basin Interior Shape: round [B1] -- pentagonal [B2]
Basin Exterior Shape: square [B1] -- pentagonal [B2]

REFERENCES

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