Gentelles / Gentela / Gentèle / Gentella, Gentilla / Gentilles / Gintelle / Le Gendalle

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view of font

ca. 1895
Scene Description: ca. 1895
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Image Source: drawing in Enlart (1895): fig. 10
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view of basin

used as base for the altar in the new church of 1920 [the old church was destroyed in WWI]
Scene Description: used as base for the altar in the new church of 1920 [the old church was destroyed in WWI]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josette Houdant, Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph by Josette Houdant, in Richesses en Somme www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 1 July 2012]
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view of church exterior in context

though undated, it shows the church destroyed in WWI
Scene Description: though undated, it shows the church destroyed in WWI
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L. Caron, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated card by L. Caron for sale in www.delcampre.net [http://images-01.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/353/868/240_001.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

though undated, it shows the church destroyed in WWI
Scene Description: though undated, it shows the church destroyed in WWI
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © L. Caron, [s.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated card by L. Caron for sale in www.delcampre.net [www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,346353863,var,LEglise-de-GENTELLES-,language,E.html] [accessed 17 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view

the modern church
Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © APictche, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 July 2014 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gentelles_(2).JPG] [accessed 17 April 2016]
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design element - motifs - foliage

on the capitals of the outer colonnettes
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josette Houdant, Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph by Josette Houdant, in Richesses en Somme www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 1 July 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding

on the capitals of the outer colonnettes
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josette Houdant, Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph by Josette Houdant, in Richesses en Somme www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 1 July 2012]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

forming the bases of the outer colonnettes
Scene Description: forming the bases of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Josette Houdant, Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph by Josette Houdant, in Richesses en Somme www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 1 July 2012]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02962GEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [altered font?], Romanesque [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Fouencamps, Havernas, Équennes [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the bnew church [used now as base of the altar]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, 80800 Gentelles, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the D168, 13 km SE of Amiens, near Fouencamps, which has another listed font.
Historical Region: Val de Somme, Picardie
Additional Comments: altered font (the basin, which had survived the destruction of the church in the First World War, was re-cycled as base for the altar in the 1920 re-construction of this church)
Font Notes:
Noted in Roger [et al.] (1844) as an ancient ["assez ancienne"] square font raised on angle columns with capitals. Noted and illustrated in Enlart (1895). Listed by Enlart (1902) among a group of 12th century (?) rectangular fonts with supporting colonnettes at the angles in the Somme. Lasteyrie (1929), who puts this font and the one at Fouencamps as rather simplistic imitations of the Tournai fonts, mentions the three-colonnette groupings at the angles. The colonnettes at the angles have leaf capitals and moulded bases. Unlike the basin of the font at Equennes, this one is plain. Catalogued in Palissy [ref.: PM80000700] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/palsri_fr] [accessed 1 July 2012] with date in the 12th century. Described and illustrated in www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/ [accessed 1 July 2012]: the old font survived the destruction of the church in WWI (1914-1918) and was re-cycled as base of the altar in the re-construction of 1920 [="Eglise St Martin ayant été détruite en 14/18 a été reconstruite en 1920. Les fonts baptismaux sont devenus la base du nouvel autel"]. The design of this font includes a rounded basin in a quadrangular frame formed by four angle colonnettes, with some varians, like the other medieval fonts in the Somme at Bergicourt, Cerisy-Buleux, Faverolles, Fourcigny, Neuville-les-Loeuilly, Rouvrel, Wiry au Mont, etc. In this case the outer columns are clustered in threes at the abgles; the capitals are decorated with large-leaf motifs and a roll moulding; the bases consist of a eries of graded mouldings.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 461018 5521627
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 50' 40.03" N, 2° 27' 24.41" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 415
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 767 footnote 1; p. 773 footnote 4
  • Enlart, Camille, Monuments réligieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région Picarde, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1895, pag. 35 and fig. 10
  • Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 705
  • Wade-Evans, Arthur Wade, Revd., Parochiale Wallicanum; or, the names of churches, chapels, etc. , within the dioceses of St. David's Llandaff, Bangor & St. Asaph, distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deaneries [...], Stow-on-the-Wold: Sold by Mr. J.H. Alden, 1911, entry LXLVI, p. 168