Fontaine-sur-Somme / Fontaines-sur-Somme

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02833FON
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Riquier de Fontaine-sur-Somme
Church Patron Saints: St. Riquier
Church Location: 7 rue de Haut, 80510 Fontaine-sur-Somme, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D3 [aka rue de Haut], 16 km SE of Abbeville, itself about 33 kms NW of Amiens.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1590?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?) [composite font?], Renaissance [composite]
Church Notes: 15th-16thC church; modified 17thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116157]
Enlart (1902) reports a wooden Renaissance cover on this font. The font and cover are listed and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: DSF 3246 P] and described as being of stone, dated 1590, and furnished with a wooden cover [NB: not clear from this source whether the font, the cover or both are dated 1590]. The font consists of an octagonal basin with a rounded gadrooned underbowl, raised on a moulded octagonal pedestal base; they do not seem to belong together. Ornate wooden cover of openwork attached to a side crane.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.028958, 1.93819
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 1′ 44.25″ N, 1° 56′ 17.48″ E
UTM: 31U 423950 5542395

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "1590"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1590?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; side crane
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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