Picquigny / Pecquigny / Pinchiniacum / Pinconii castrum / Pinquigniacum / Pinkeni / Pinkinei /

Enlart (1902) lists a rectangular font and describes it as being decorated with arches and looking like an altar [="cuve à arcatures analogue à un autel"]. There appears to be a contradiction in Enlart's dating: his first reference dates to the 13th century whereas his second reference makes it 15th century. The local web info page dates them to the 15th century. The difference in dating the font may stem from the likelyhood of it being a re-carved font, the alteration effected in the 15th century, as the tracery all around suggests. The re-carved decoration consists of a band of foliage (?) motifs below the torus-scotia combination below the upper rim, with pairs of trefoiled windows on the sides se parated by buttress-like motifs topped with foliated ends; below the tracery are geometric niches cut horizontally into the stone. The font appears to be a single quadrangular block, the inner well square with rounded angles; there are two metal eyelets from an old cover system, and one of the sides of the upper rim has a reinforcing metal staple, probably to repair a crack in the stone. The basin is mounted on a modern plinth, also quadrangular. The font is located now [September 2007] near the northwest angle of the nave, by the entrance to the subterranean chambers.