Samer / Saumer / Silviacus / Villa Sancti Ulmari

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: Source caption: "fonts baptismaux dans l'église de Samer datant du XIe siècle"

Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by André Lemoine [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Samer_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - angel holding cloth

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

cleric - bishop - with staff - St. Wulmer?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: very thick, seen here between the two human heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - male - baptizand or catechumen? (wrestler or weight-lifter?) - 3 - holding hands

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

human figure - male - naked - holding to a column

Scene Description: with different hair and two arms it might have been Samson

Image Source: Image taken by Patrick Bibault; published 11 April 2010 [http://randoslondres.wordpress.com/category/velo/raid-2009-dunkerque-toulouse/] [accessed 6 August 2012]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Samer, fonts baptismaux"

Image Source: digital image [edited] of an 1879 lithograph by CH Desavary, Arras, of a drawing by J. Richard, in the Bulletin de la Commission des antiquités départementales, Pas-de-Calais, tome V [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Samer_fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Martin de Samer datent du XI° siècle" -- the angel on the left is part of the Baptism of Christ scene

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2020 by Jacques Rocquet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonds_baptismaux_3.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of basin and cover - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Samer, Pas-de-Calais, France [...] Eglise [...] Fonst baptismaux" -- showing a partial view of the old cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [MH0029129] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029129] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_-_Fonts_baptismaux_-_Samer_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00029129.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samer_-_Église_Saint-Martin_-_2.jpg] [accessed 13 June 2016]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Samer, eglise Saint-Martin, interieur"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2021 by Arie M den Toom [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samer,_eglise_Saint-Martin,_interieur_1.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux de l'église de Samer "

Image Source: digital image [edited] of an early-20thC lithograph by Deschand Delbasse, Samer, in the Comité d'histoire du Haut-Pays [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Samer_fonts_CPA.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Martin de Samer datent du XI° siècle"

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2020 by Jacques Rocquet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonds_baptismaux_1.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Les fonts baptismaux de l'église Saint-Martin de Samer datent du XI° siècle"

Image Source: digital photograph 30 July 2020 by Jacques Rocquet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonds_baptismaux_2.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Samer, Pas-de-Calais, France [...] Eglise [...] Fonst baptismaux" -- showing the old cover

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [MH0029131] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029131] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_-_Fonts_baptismaux_-_Samer_-_Médiathèque_de_l'architecture_et_du_patrimoine_-_APMH00029131.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2022]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02913SAM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin [originally from the abbey church here?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 54 place de l'Abbaye, 62830 Samer, France -- Tel.: 03.21.33.51.86

Country Name: France

Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Samer is off the D215-D238 crossroads, 15 km SE of Boulogne-sur-Mer (dir. Montreuil/Abbeville)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: Le Boulonnais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entranceway

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font / Boulonnais font

Cognate Fonts: Airaines? [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Patrick Bibault, of http://randoslondres.wordpress.com/category/velo/raid-2009-dunkerque-toulouse/ for his additional photograph of this font

Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108427]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The font here is described and illustrated in Richards (1879), who mentions an earlier mention by M. Deschamps de Pas in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie (1853). Richards (ibid.) identifies the material as a hard sandstone ["cuve en pierre dure en grès"]; he mentions the Baptism of Christ scene, and compares the clean-shaven Christ here to the one on the font at Orgibet [cf. Index entry]; Richards also suggests that the figure next to the angel may be the abbot who commissioned the font ["A côté de l'ange se trouve un personnage tonsuré tenant une crosse de la main gauche et bénissant de la main droite, type conforme aux sceaux des abbés des XIIe et XIIIe siècles; à défaut d'indications plus précises, il est permis d'y voir la figure d'un abbé de Saint Wulmer de Samer, qui aurait fait exécuter ces fonts baptismaux"]; the next three figures are identified in Richards (ibid.), "En dépit des mutilations", as a bearded man, a woman and a clean-shaven man, which he suggests are either three catecumens being baptised by Saint-Wulmer, or three possessed being exorcised by the abbot; Richardson (ibid.) suggests a 12th-century date for this font. Enlart (1890) and (1902) lists this one among a group of 11th-century footless tub-shaped immersion fonts ornamented with colonnettes; he states that its ornamentation is similar to the rectangular font at Airaines (Somme): "ils sont en calcaire oolithique du Boulonnais et que la grande cuve d'Airaines est non seulement du XIe siècle comme eux et faite de la même pierre, mais qu elle reproduit avec la similitude la plus frappante les mêmes figures et les mêmes ornements" [cf. Index entry], which is decorated with scenes (including a scene of Baptism) and animals; later in the same source Enlart refers to a depiction of "Saint-Wlmer [sic], à Samer". Described in Oursel (1994), who lists it as a product of the Boulonnais workshops and dates it to the mid 12th century in relation to the date of the font at Airaines. Drake (2002) does not place it with any of the groups or workshops. On-site notes: tub-font probably from the mid- or late-12th century or the early part of the 13th century [despite some claims to earlier dates]; the upper half of the basin has a high-relief of the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist in the presence of an angel who holds a cloth; a tonsured cleric, identified in some sources as St. Wulmer, holds a bishop's staff and has a hand raised in benediction; three human figures holding hands and dressed as wrestlers/weight-lifters are usually identified as cathecumens; the lower half is either plain and intended to be interred up the its middle, or has had all the lower iconographic program chiselled off. The font is said to have originated at the old abbey church of Samer [cf. Wintrebert]. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: IM62000985] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the 12th century, with two scenes suggested: the Baptism of Christ and the conversion of the first Samer Christians by St. Wulmer. The present font cover in use is a round, flat and plain one, but an early-20th century lithograph [cf. ImagesArea, shows the font using a bell-shaped font cover topped with an orb-and-Latin cross finial].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.639504, 1.746144

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 22.21″ N, 1° 44′ 46.12″ E

UTM: 31U 411339 5610488

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Marquise) [calcaire oolithique]

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: The lid was padlocked and the key could not be found at the time of our visit [missing iInformation request]

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm* / 95-97 cm** / 110 cm***

Basin Depth: 57-58 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm* / 110 cm** / 105 cm***

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: the modern font cover was padlocked during the on-site visit and the key could not be found at the time - missing information requested] / ** Richards (1897: 41) / *** Palissy [ref.: IM62000985]

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Enlart, Camille, 8 (1890), Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1890, pp. 46-73; r["References"]

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

Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994

Richard, Jules-Marie, "Les fonts baptismaux de Samer", 5 (1879), Bulletin de la Commission des antiquités départementales (Pas-de-Calais), 1879, pp. 41-44, pl.; r["References"]