Vismes-au-Val / Vismemont / Vismes au mont

Viollet-le-Duc (1875- ) describes the lead font at the parish church of Vismes as being similar in size to the one at Lombez (78 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height), but octagonal, and as having had in the past a "figurine" under each of the of the sixteen arches of the basin side. He describes the 15th-century lead basin as being supported on a 13th-century "table de pierre" mounted on four shafts. Adolphe (1878) notes: "une cuve baptismale en plomb (XVe s.) sur une table de pierre romane." Duchemin (1890) notes some similarities betwee the fonts at Bourg-Achard, Plomber and Visme, all in France. Noted in Lethaby (1893). Listed by Enlart (1902) among 15th-century lead fonts; in a later reference, same source, Enlart describes the figures depicted on it as Christ and the Apostles [NB: had the figures been replaced since Viollet-le-Duc's time twenty-five years earlier? Is this Enlart's guess?]. Lasteyrie (1926-1927) describes the font as having two arches per panel, to a total of sixteen, under each arch there was once ["jadis"] a statuette standing on a "cul-de-lampe" (ibid., p. 514). He dates the font to the 16th century. Equié (1880) citing Viollet-le-Duc gives the spelling of "Visme" for this locality and the reference to V-le-D's book page as 542. Described and illustrated in Houdant ([s.d.]): "Les fonts baptismaux se composent d’une belle cuve octogonale en plomb du XVe s., à huit pans, posée sur une épaisse table de pierre que supportent quatre colonnettes avec chapiteaux à crochets du XIIIe s. Seize arcatures en plein cintre, couronnées de gables en accolade, sur l’extrados desquels s’accrochent des chimères, en garnissent le pourtour. Au centre de chaque arcature un petit socle recevait une statuette en demi-relief et en plomb, aujourd’hui disparues." Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80001389] as a 15th-century lead font raised on a former 13th-century stone altar: "Les fonts baptismaux, en plomb, se trouvent sur un autel en pierre. [...] Les fonts sont du 15e siècle, tandis que l'autel est du 13e siècle."