Fontenailles / Manvieux nr. Longues-sur-Mer
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
design element - patterns - tracery (trefoiled, quatrefoiled, cinquefoiled, circular, etc.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
design element - patterns - tracery (trefoiled, quatrefoiled, cinquefoiled, circular, etc.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
design element - patterns - tracery (trefoiled, quatrefoiled, cinquefoiled, circular, etc.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
design element - patterns - tracery (trefoiled, quatrefoiled, cinquefoiled, circular, etc.)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Fontenailles Saint-Pierre ca. 1919
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a Négatif noir et blanc; support verre taken pre-1919 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [NUMI: MH0018382] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0319/sap01_mh018382_p.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: Fontenailles Saint-Pierre ca. 1919; the blocked portal appears to have been from the original 12thC church
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Image Source: digital image of a Négatif noir et blanc; support verre taken pre-1919 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [NUMI: MH0018409] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0319/sap01_mh018409_p.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Fontenailles Saint-Pierre ca. 1919
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Image Source: digital image of a Négatif noir et blanc; support verre taken pre-1919 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [NUMI: MH0018381] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0319/sap01_mh018381_p.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of church exterior - statue - St. Peter
Scene Description: the patron saint of the ruined church in a niche of the side of the tower
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior - tower - detail
Scene Description: a statue of the patron saint of the ruined church in a niche of the side of the tower
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: this aerial photograph allows to see the surviving font in the context of the interior perimeter of the whole church -- the niche with the statue of St. Peter is also visible here, on the right side of the tower, above the door
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Deltakap, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2009 by Deltakap [www.flickriver.com/places/France/Lower+Normandy/Fontenailles/search/] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Fontenailles Saint-Pierre ca. 1919
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a Négatif noir et blanc; support verre taken pre-1919 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [NUMI: MH0018383] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0319/sap01_mh018383_p.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the old base which is no longer under the basin in later images
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lasteyrie, 1927
Image Source: Lasteyrie du Saillant (1926-1927, vol. 2: pl. 1108)
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view of font - east side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
view of font - west side
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Fontenailles Saint-Pierre ca. 1919; the font and cover as it appeared before the destruction of this church in 1944
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Image Source: digital image of a Négatif noir et blanc; support verre taken pre-1919 by Henri Heuzé, in Mémoire [NUMI: MH0018780] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0319/sap01_mh018780_p.jpg] [accessed 14 October 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: The font is located within the former perimeter of the semi-destroyed church. Only a small part of the building stands.
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 19 June 2000 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02899FON
Church/Chapel: Old Church of St-Pierre of Fontenailles [abandoned; now in ruins]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: 14400 Longues-sur-Mer, France [ruins of the church located near Longues-sur-Mer -- city/village coordinates given are for the latter]
Country Name: France
Location: Calvados, Normandie
Directions to Site: Enlart gives Fontenailles in Calvados. Le Conseil Général de Calvados kindly responded to our query saying that a village of that name did exist in Calvados many years ago and that it goes now under the name "Manvieux", near Bayeux [site visited] -- A former hamlet of Longues-sur-Mer, it was located off (S) the D514, S of Longues-s-M, WSW of Manvieux, NNE of Bayeux
Historical Region: Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: On the grounds of the ruined church
Century and Period: 14th century [Enlart], Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Lasteyrie (1926-1927) gives the font at Jugaran (Gironde) as cognate
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mme. Anne-Marie Chuet-Deschamps, of the Conseil Général de Calvados, for her kind assitance in documenting the site and its font
Church Notes: 12thC church completed ca. 1202; badly damaged in the 1944 bombings; now abandoned and totally in ruins; other than the font itself, only the tower stands, however precariously, with a lovely image of St. Peter in a niche protected by a sheet of plastic or glass. -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00111504]
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a lead font of the 14th century and octagonal in shape. Huard (1928) has it as hexagonal and made of stone but locates Fontenailles simply as in Normandy. [NB: Le Conseil Général de Calvados responded to our query saying that a village of that name did exist in Calvados many years ago and that it now belong to the commune of MANVIEUX, near Bayeux [information courtesy of Mme. Anne-Marie Chuet-Deschamps]. Our on-site visit found Fontenailles indeed near Manvieux; all that remains now are the ruins of the church of St. Peter; among the ruins still stands a limestone octagonal font, probably of the 14th century: six of the sides of the basin are ornamented with Ogee arches and other architectural motifs; the base is octagonal and plain. The only other Fontenailles found is half-way, 25 kms, between Melun and Provins on the D408, north-east of Fontainebleau. Lasteyrie's description and illustration (1926-1927) further add to the confusion regarding this font and/or location. His illustration and description are based on De Caumont's article in the Bulletin monumental (t. XV, p. 481), and this font is described as "assez petits" and "d'un travail plus délicat", but the font we found in Fontenailles is neither small nor could its ornamentation be described as delicate. It is clear however that the two fonts are one and the same, although Lasteyrie's illustration [after De Caumont] shows the basin mounted on a different base; the basin is the same as the font we documented in the Calvados site [cf. Images area]: the octagonal basin has four consecutive blank sides, the other consecutive four are decorated with a busy sampler of Gothic tracery [L->R]: 1)Gothic window with tetrafoil, two concentric circles below the arms of the tetrafoil and, at the bottom, two Gothic windows with trefoil arches; 2)large circle contains four smaller circles each of which contain a tetrafoil motif each; at the bottom two Gothic windows with trefoil arches; 3)large circle containing a cinquefoil window; at the bottom the same two Gothic windows with trefoil arches common to all four panels; 4)two concentric circles at the top, one on each side; two Gothic windows at the bottom with the trefoil arches as on the other panels; in the centre is an inverted heart window, the two lobes of the heart containing a circle and a cinquefoil window, while the upper pointed space is occupied by a trefoil motif in a sort-of-triangular frame. De Caumont's drawing (in Lasteyrie) is correct.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 19' 44.4" N,
0° 41' 0.24" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 11-13 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Basin Depth: 27 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Height of Base: 65 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 30-33 x 49 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 78 cm* (diagonal across)
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: measurements of the font in 2000 -- the octagonal lower base was probably originally interred at least half-way and did not belong to this font]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: pre-1919 photo shows a cover on the font
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
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