Pont-Audemer
Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Results: 34 records
B03: human figure - female - wearing head-dress - demi-figure
Scene Description: seen here in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: in the spaces between the demi-figures
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: in the spaces between the heads/mascarons
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a band of, below the flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: all around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
design element - patterns - ball-in-socket
Scene Description: a band of, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
head - grotesque or fantastic - 8
Scene Description: showing some of them here; the one in the centre is badly damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
human figure - female - hair in braids - demi-figure
human figure - female - naked
human figure - male - bearded - demi-figure
human figure - male - demi-figure
Scene Description: face damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
human figure - male - warrior - in armour - demi-figure
Scene Description: seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
human figure - male - youth - demi-figure
Scene Description: face damaged
human figure - male - youth - demi-figure
Scene Description: seen here on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
symbol - 'Ecclesia' and 'Synagoga', Church and Synagogue - Ecclesia?
Scene Description: Female figure appears to be holding a chalice
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior in context - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Ouen de Pont-Audemer"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 2 October 2007 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pont_d'Audemer,_Église_Saint-Ouen-PM_06977.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - column - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pont-Audemer (département de l'Eure, France) : vue intérieure de l'église Saint-Ouen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Ryckaert, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2019 by Marc Ryckaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pont-Audemer_Eglise_StOuen_R01.jpg] [accessed 1 Match 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pont-Audemer (département de l'Eure, France) : vue intérieure de l'église Saint-Ouen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marc Ryckaert, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 18 September 2019 by Marc Ryckaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pont-Audemer_Eglise_StOuen_R04.jpg] [accessed 1 Match 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - monument
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2024 by Pierre Taillefer, in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHR28_20242700169] [accessed 1 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche Saint-Ouen in Pont-Audemer im Département Eure (Haute-Normandie/Frankreich), Taufbecken aus dem 16. Jahrhundert / Pont-Audemer (Eure, Normandie, France), église St Ouen, fonts baptismaux du 16e siècle, classés M.H."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 7 September 2013 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pont-Audemer_Saint-Ouen_Taufbecken_705.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
virtues and vices - cardinal virtues - Justice (Justitia)
Scene Description: Female figure appears to be holding a sword
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure: too worn to identify her
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure, holding her hands to her breast
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure appears to be holding a serpent (Luxuria?)
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure holding an unidentified object
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure holding an unidentified object (a skull?) seen here on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
virtues and vices - unidentified
Scene Description: Female figure holding an unidentified object seen here in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 June 2000 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02820PON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Ouen
Church Patron Saints: St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Location: 8bis Rue de la République, 27500 Pont-Audemer, France -- Tel.: +33 2 32 56 23 84
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: Pont-Audemer is located off the D180/N175, about 20 km Et of Honfleur
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099515]: "Au 11ème siècle, ajout d'un clocher sur un édifice existant déjà. Après la guerre de Cent ans, un nouvel édifice plus vaste est bâti sous la direction de Michel Gohier. Au 16ème siècle, poursuite de l'élévation de la nef avec le triforium, l'amorce des fenêtres hautes et le voûtement des cinq premières travées des bas-côtés, par Guillaume Morin et Thomas Theroulde."
Font Notes:
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On-site notes: octagonal basin mounted on an octagonal pedestal base. The basin has 8 figures, one at each corner, facing forward, arms extended; the space between the figures is filled with floral motifs. There is a band of ball-in-socket motif at the upper part of the chamfer, while the lower part has animal heads at the corners, in line with the figures of the basin. The base has 8 female (?) figures standing between the columns at the corners, each holding an object (chalice, skull, sword, etc.), probably a reperesentation of vices and virtues. Listed by Enlart (1902) as a French Renaissance baldaquin font, the basin octagonal. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM27001283]: "Ces fonts présentent une cuve octogone pédiculée. Le piédestal est doté de colonnettes engagées à chapiteaux fantaisistes ainsi que huit niches à fond de coquille dans lesquelles se trouvent les statuettes de la Force, la Tempérance, une femme tenant une tête de mort (sainte Marie-Madeleine ?), une femme portant un bénitier et un goupillon (sainte Marthe ?), une femme tenant une épée et un objet brisé (peut-être un livre), une femme les mains croisées sur la poitrine, une femme montrant du doigt à sa gauche et soulevant sa robe de la main gauche, une femme (peut-être la Prudence) étouffant un serpent et tenant un objet brisé (un livre ?) [...] 1er quart 16e siècle". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: MHR28_20242700169]. Huard (1928) describes the font as stone peduncular of the 16th century. The lower base is made of several mouldings and goes below floor level. It has a 19th century wooden flat cover with round/ball handle. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) dates the font to the 16th century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.3553, 0.515
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 21′ 19.08″ N, 0° 30′ 54″ E
UTM: 31U 319546 5469924
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: We could not gain access to the inside during our visit.
Diameter (includes rim): 90 cm (diagonal)
Basin Total Height: 52 cm
Height of Base: 63 cm
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 37 x 22 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI. [NB: the panels of the base are 23 cm wide by 50 cm tall (we had no access to the inside of the basin during our visit)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: Octagonal, flat and plain. The basin cover is kept locked.
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
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-01 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Huard, Georges, Art en Normandie, Paris: Beaux-Arts, éditions d'études et documents, 1928