Compiegne No. 1 / Compiègne

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: in the corner spandrels of the upper basin surface

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 7 April 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compiègne_(60),_église_St-Antoine,_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 4

Scene Description: a large one, in the middle of the side

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: a large leaf on the underside at each of the corners

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: at the corners of the lower base

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a thick one, all around

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - northeast end

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 December 2012 by Pline [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise-Saint-Antoine-a-Compiegne-DSC_0272.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2016]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: Source caption: "1909 Plan au sol de l'église par Paul Guynemer, avec légende."

Image Source: illustration in Paul Guynemer's Étude sur la paroisse et l'église Saint-Antoine de Compiègne (Compiègne: Progrès de l'Oise, 1909: 87)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken in 1996 by C. David, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR22_96600808ZA] [NUMI 96600808ZA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0902/ivr22_96600808za_p.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Compiègne_(60),_église_St-Antoine,_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02852COM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Antoine [orig. from "la paroisse du Crucifix dans l'abbaye Saint-Corneille"]

Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]

Church Location: 10 Rue Saint-Antoine, 60200 Compiègne, France -- Tel.: +33 3 44 40 43 70

Country Name: France

Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located on the N31, 55 km E of Beauvais; the church is in the town centre, in the carrefour of Austerlitz, Saint-Antoine, Cordeliers, Pasteur, Paris and Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Beauvais

Historical Region: Picardie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, S aisle, W end

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font

Cognate Fonts: Gand, Cousolre, Gallaix, Montdidier and Saint-Just en Chaussée, etc.

Church Notes: church 1199 belonging to the Abbaye Saint-Corneille; completed 13thC; greatly altered 16thC; restored after 1863;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Ruprich-Robert (1855) mentions a noteworthy font here, without further details. Square mounted font of the Tournai type, probably made from Boulogne marble (Cloquet, 1895). Enlart (1902) lists it also as a Tournai font and dates to the 11-12th century. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) describes it as being originally from "la paroisse du Crucifix dans l'abbaye Saint-Corneille", a square mounted font in Tournai black marble and dated to the 13th century. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM60000575]: " Les fonts en pierre de Tournai sculptée datent du 12e siècle, mais le couvercle qui les ferme est moderne. Une photographie est conservée aux archives départementales de l'Oise, fonds Mansart de Sagonne, 11 Fi 157. [...] ornementation (frise : rinceau, écu, croix, tétramorphe) [...] Le couvercle est moderne [...] 20e siècle." The font consists of a square basin with a round inner well; the upper surface is decorated with floral and foliage motifs at the spandrels; the sides of the font have a pattern of wavy vine all around interrupted at the centre of each side by a large floral (?) motif, rather uncharacteristic on these Tournai fonts; the cylindrical stem has a roll moulding on it but it is much worn now; the lower base is of the transitional type after the earlier ones with the four outer columns; the thick moulding all around the centre shaft is there, as are the broad leaves at the angles of the square. Brass cover, flat and hinged in the middle. There are other Tournai-type fonts not far at Montdidier and Saint-Just en Chaussée; also two other Tournai fonts, more interesting from an iconographic point of view, near Saint-Quentin, at Vermand and Ribemont.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.416194, 2.82278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 24′ 58.3″ N, 2° 49′ 22.01″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: Probably a centre hole as in most of the fonts of this type

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 115 x 115 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM60000575]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century?

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; r["References"]

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

Guynemer, Paul, Étude sur la paroisse et l'église Saint-Antoine de Compiègne, Compiègne: Progrès de l'Oise, 1909

Ruprich-Robert, V., "Bénitiers et fonts baptismaux du Moyen-âge et de la Renaissance", II (1855), Revue générale de l'architecture et des travaux publics, pp. 289-290, Pl. XXVI; r["References"]