Crecy-la-Chapelle No. 1 / Crécy-la-Chapelle / Chapelle-sur-Crecy / La Chapelle-sur-Crécy

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: several rows, all around; very faint now
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph [77w05185] in Mémoire [AP77W05185] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP77W05185] [accessed 12 August 2023]
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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crécy-la-Chapelle [...], collégiale Notre-Dame, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2017 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crécy-la-Chapelle_(77),_collégiale_Notre-Dame,_fonts_baptismaux_2.jpg] [accessed 12 August 2023]
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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crécy-la-Chapelle [...], collégiale Notre-Dame, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2017
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Collégiale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption à Crécy-la-Chapelle (Seine-et-Marne, France) : la face sud."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Myrabella, 2011
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Collégiale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption de Crécy-la-Chapelle"
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: " katholische Kirche Notre-Dame in Crécy-la-Chapelle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2011
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: " katholische Kirche Notre-Dame in Crécy-la-Chapelle"
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crécy-la-Chapelle[...], collégiale Notre-Dame, portail occidental, tympan, Vierge à l'Enfant"
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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crécy-la-Chapelle [...], collégiale Notre-Dame, bas-côté nord, vue vers l'ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2017
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INFORMATION

FontID: 02814CRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise collégiale Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 3 Pl. Edouard de Moustier, 77580 Crécy-la-Chapelle, France -- Tel.: +33 1 64 63 70 19
Country Name: France
Location: Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: There is a "la-Chapelle-sur-Crecy" on one side of the N34 road and "Crécy-la-Chapelle" across the road; both are about 11 km S of Meaux, 45-50 km E of Paris city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Meaux
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW area of the nave
Date: 1531
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church Notes: church built between 1202 and 1250; burned down and re-built 15thC; restored 1994-2005 -- listed church in Mérimée [ref.: PA00086915]: "13e siècle ; 15e siècle"
Font Notes:
Included by Enlart (1902) in a list of French Renaissance double-fonts. Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a noteworthy baptismal font with double-basin well and dated to 1561. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM77000303]: "Fonts baptismau [...] Pierre : taillé, peint [...] La cuve se compose d'un premier bassin rond et d'une petite vasque qui lui est accolée, celle-ci repose sur une colonnette [...] Sur un des côtés de la cuve, on lit la date : 1531 [...] 105 h ; 105 d". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP77W05185]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.858, 2.9263
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 51′ 28.8″ N, 2° 55′ 34.68″ E
UTM: 31U 494594 5411673

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) (double-font)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 105 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM77000303]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1531"
Inscription Source: Palissy has 1531 [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902