Mesnil-Mauger / Le Mesnil-Mauger [now at the Musée de Caen]

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: one per side, each containing a holy figure, a/p description in Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

B02: Virgin Mary

Scene Description: under one of the trefoil arches, a/p description in Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

B03: Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence

Scene Description: under one of the trefoil arches, a/p description in Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

B04: Apostle or saint - St. Barbara

Scene Description: under one of the trefoil arches, a/p description in Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

B05: Apostle or saint - St. Stephen

Scene Description: under one of the trefoil arches, a/p description in Lasteyrie (1926-1927)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02897MES
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen
Church/Chapel: [now in a museum]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the museum] Le Château, 14000 Caen, France -- Tel.: +33 2 31 30 47 70
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Le Mesnil-Mauger or Mesnil-sur-Oger is 13 kms SSE of Epernay
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Church Notes: Font now at the museum in Caen
Listed by Enlart (1902) among a group of 13th-century lead fonts. Huard (1928) has the basin as octagonal. Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes it as octagonal, each side ornamented with a trefoil arch; each arch contains a figure, of which Lasteyrie mentions St. Mary, St. Lawrence, St. Barbara and St. Stephen. He also suggests a much later dating, the 15th century. [NB: as Lasteyrie (ibid. p. 514) himself suggests, many of these lead fonts were the work of itinerant metal-workers who travelled around with their matrices; the avai;lable patterns of ornamentation, often passed on from father to son, did not vary much through several centuries, which makes the dating of the fonts on the basis of style a risky business indeed.]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.1861, -0.361487
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 11′ 9.96″ N, 0° 21′ 41.35″ W
UTM: 30U 692258 5451495

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; r["References"]
Huard, Georges, Art en Normandie, Paris: Beaux-Arts, éditions d'études et documents, 1928
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927