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

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02897MES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Museum: Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen
Church / Chapel Name: [now in a museum]
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Church Notes: Font now at the museum in Caen
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates for the museum] Le Château, 14000 Caen, France -- Tel.: +33 2 31 30 47 70
Site Location: Marne, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Le Mesnil-Mauger or Mesnil-sur-Oger is 13 kms SSE of Epernay
Font Notes:
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

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

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, p. 770 footnote 2
  • 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?]; p. 8n
  • Huard, Georges, Art en Normandie, Paris: Beaux-Arts, éditions d'études et documents, 1928, p. 91
  • 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, vol. 2, p. 514