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Image Source: Fleury (1878-1882, pt. 2, fig.339) and
Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 121) [Corblet appears to use Fleury's engraving]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02914LOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Rémi
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Notes: this church is now part of the Paroisse Saint Pierre et Saint Paul des Trois Rivières
Church Address: 02190 Lor, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the canton of Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne, 35 km NE of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin [formerly in the dioceses of Reims and Laon]
Historical Region: Champagne pouilleuse -- Le Laonnois
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Fleury (1878-1882), who suggests this font made of "marbre ardoisier" [a metamorphic rock] competes for second place in age, after the immersion font at Concevreux, with those at Neuve-Maison and Prouvais, and points out that the four legs on the Lor font are not original but a later addition. Enlart (1902) describes it as an immersion font from the 11th century with a cruciform cavity [he may be referring only to the font at Cocevreux, which is of that shape], whereas Corblet (1881-1882), who gives the same date, illustrates an egg-shaped font, totally plain, standing on four legs which, he specifies, as did Fleury, "sont une addition postérieure".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 576000 5487062
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, metamorphic rock (marbre ardoisier)
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round/oval?
Basin Exterior Shape: round/oval?
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 121
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 771
- Fleury, Edouard, La France archéologique: antiquités et monuments du département de l'Aisne (4e partie), Laon: Chez H. Menu, librarire, 1878-1882, pt. 2: 270-271 and fig. 339