Folleville

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animal - claw - 4

Scene Description: at the bottom tips of the large leaves

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Image Source: digital photograph in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-14e-au-18e/] [accessed 13 April 2023]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: very large leaves at the angles with scrolled tips at the top and animal claws at the bottom

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design element - patterns - fretwork

Scene Description: all around

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design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: between the large leaves

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oat of arms - 4

Scene Description: "quatre écussons chargés des armes de Folleville, de Lannoy, de Poix et d'Hangest" [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 February 2008 by Markus3 (Marc Roussel) [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Folleville_%C3%A9glise_1a_%C2%B0G7%C2%B0.jpg] [accessed 5 August 2012]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Folleville (Somme), nef de l'église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Journées européennes du patrimoine 2020)." -- te baptismal font is partially visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Folleville, Somme, France. Eglise Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur et Saint-Jean-Baptiste. Fonts baptismaux."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023

Image Source: digital image [MH0024776] of a 1914 B&W negative by Georges Durand, in Base Mémoire [APMH00024776] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur_et_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Fonts_baptismaux_-_Folleville_-_M%C3%A9diath%C3%A8que_de_l%27architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00024776.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2023]

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of an undated [ca. 1900?] postcard Edit. Cartoux-Vimeux, Breteuil, IMP. CATALA FRERES, PARIS, in ebay [https://www.ebay.fr/itm/334100818440] [accessed 13 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02830FOL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] & St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 80250 Folleville, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement de Montdidier, canton de Ailly-sur-Noye
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1548?
Century and Period: 16th century[composite font], Renaissance [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: a similar basin in Chapelle Saint-Julien du Tréport [https://archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/5ntf7jghmqr0/bed42dc5-77fb-4207-979d-5945f31978eb] [accessed 13 April 2023]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116156]
The 1840-1841 session of the Comité historique des arts et monuments, published in the Bulletin Archéologique, vol. 1, pt. 2 (1843: 308) notes a drawing of the baptismal font at Folleville made by "M. Potier, élève du séminaire" [the reference is to a group of assistants from the seminary of Beauvais, who were helping M. l'abbé Barraud to produce drawings of churches and their contents]. Enlart (1902) mentions a wooden High Gothic font-cover in Folleville. Catalogued in Palissy [ref.: PM80001455] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palissy_fr] [accessed 5 August 2012] as a baptismal font of the 16th century made of marble. The 28 November 1989 article 'Les destructions dans les églises pendant la Révolution' [https://fresques.ina.fr/picardie/fiche-media/Picard00439/les-destructions-dans-les-eglises-pendant-la-revolution.html] [accessed 12April 2023] writes on how the font was protected during the Revolution: "Selon Pierre Michelin, historien de Folleville, qui fut par ailleurs maire de cette commune et président de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, ce sont les paroissiens qui permirent que fut sauvegardé l'essentiel du patrimoine de cette église, en particulier les remarquables fonts baptismaux, qui ont la forme d'une coupe évasée, en marbre blanc, ceinte de la chaîne historique des de Lannoy qui retient dans son contour quatre écussons chargés des armes de Folleville, de Lannoy, de Poix et d'Hangest". An old postcard postcard Edit. Cartoux-Vimeux, Breteuil, IMP. CATALA FRERES, PARIS [https://www.ebay.fr/itm/334100818440] [accessed 13 April 2023] shows the font fitted with a large wooden cover, with pannelled sides on the lower part, conical above ending on an orb-and-cross finial. The font is described and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-14e-au-18e/] [accessed 13 April 2023]: " FOLLEVILLE - Eglise St Jacques le Majeur - F.B. de 1548. Célèbre par les superbes tombeaux qu'elle renferme, l'église St Jacques le Majeur (1524) de style flamboyant, témoigne de la pénétration de la Renaissance en Picardie. Elle possède des fonts baptismaux, sur lesquels Saint Vincent de Paul a certainement baptisé des enfants. Leur forme rompt avec les traditionnelles cuves circulaires et profondes. Le cachet de la Renaissance et de l'Art Italien sont empreints sur cette cuve baptismale, qui est livrée pour le baptême d'Henri de Lannoy, dont le parrain est Henri II, Roi de France, et la marraine, Marguerite de France, sa soeur. La vasque taillée dans du marbre de Carrare, veiné de noir, est ceinte de la chaîne historique des Lannoy avec les quatre écussons des armes de Folleville, de Lannoy, de Poix et d'Hangest. Elle repose sur un pied en pierre du pays, sculpté de feuilles d'acanthe se terminant par des griffes." [NB: an unrecorded source identified the base as a local limestone, whereas the basin has been identified in several source as Carrara marble].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.676647, 2.363433
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 40′ 35.93″ N, 2° 21′ 48.36″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Carrara?)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: High Gothic
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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