Saint-Riquier / Centula / Centule / Centulum

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes

one of the scenes on the stem; in the centre here
Scene Description: one of the scenes on the stem; in the centre here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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design element - architectural - buttress - pinnacled - 6

column-like buttresses at the angles
Scene Description: column-like buttresses at the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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human figure - head - male

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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human figure - putto - 2

they appear to be holding a large leaf; is it a shield?
Scene Description: they appear to be holding a large leaf; is it a shield?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - west façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedrich Tellberg, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 August 2006 by Friedrich Tellberg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SaintRiquierAbbatiale.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "[17thC] Planche gravée du 17ème siècle représentant l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier, dans le livre Monasticon Gallicanum [...] Dom Germain [...] Bibliothèque nationale de France"
Scene Description: Source caption: "[17thC] Planche gravée du 17ème siècle représentant l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier, dans le livre Monasticon Gallicanum [...] Dom Germain [...] Bibliothèque nationale de France"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 17thC engraving in Monasticon Gallicanum, Bibliothèque nationale de France [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_dans_Monasticon_Gallicanum.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2008 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier_23-09-2008_13-15-56.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paul Hermans, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2008 by Paul Hermans [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier_23-09-2008_10-42-29.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of font and cover

showing the crane that was later removed
Scene Description: showing the crane that was later removed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a May 1887 photograph in the Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Ail. 269 [https://patrimoine.abbeville.fr/collection/item/31455-saint-riquier-cuve-baptismale-mai-1887] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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view of font and cover

showing the crane that was later removed
Scene Description: showing the crane that was later removed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an Héliogravure in the Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Ail. 266 [https://patrimoine.abbeville.fr/collection/item/31451-fonts-baptismaux-eglise-de-saint-riquier-somme] [accessed 9 February 2025]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 1993
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Henri Deneux, in Mémoire [ref.: DNX 4724] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0003/sap01_dnx4724_p.jpg] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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view of font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattis, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 134 March 2011 by Mattis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Riquier,_Abbaye_de_Saint-Riquier_34.JPG] [accessed 23 April 2016]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 02829RIQ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Riquier
Church Patron Saints: St, Riquier [aka Richarius]
Church Location: 80135 Saint-Riquier, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located at the D32-D925 crossroads, 10 km ENE of Abbeville, 34 kms NW of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: In its own baptistery [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Church Notes: abbey founded 625 by Richarius; Carolingian abbey completed 799; destroyed by Normans 9thC; re-built 11thC; burnt down 1131; re-built 13thC; present church 15th-16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116244]
Font Notes:
Enlart reports the presence of a wooden "High Gothic" font cover (Enlart, 1902). Delpal (1985) mentions the "splendid Renaissance baptistery" inside the abbey-church of St-Riquier. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80001192]: "Fonts baptismaux cylindriques en pierre, surmontés d'un couvercle pyramidal en bois sculpté qui comporte une statuette de femme en son sommet. [...] 16e siècle". Contrary to the Palissy description the font is not cylindrical but hexagonal, as is the ornate cover; the font is of stone, of the type that appears monolithic; the upper rim has a browf round moulding, the sides of the hexagonal basin decorated with human heads, putti holding vine leaves, etc. the angles of the stem are decorated with ornate column-shaped buttresses, the sides themselves have deeply-carved scenes in recesses, one of which is the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.1342, 1.9486
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 8′ 3.12″ N, 1° 56′ 54.96″ E
UTM: 31U 424860 5554081

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; side crane [removed at a later date?]
Notes: pyramidal with female figure finial

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985