Havernas / Haurenas

There is no mention of a font in Havernas in Roger (1844), but he writes of the church at the time having an arcade that divided the chancel form the nave, suggesting an ancient church here. [NB: that church must have been re-built soon after Roger's visit, in the mid-19th century]. Enlart (1895) notes: "La tablette supérieure de la cuve d Havernas est ornée de dents de scie", and illustrates the font with grass, etc., at its feet, indicating it was not inside the church at the time. Listed by Enlart (1902) among a group of 12th century (?) rectangular fonts with supporting colonnettes at the angles in the Somme. The only source available to BSI at present is a photograph from Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/] [accessed 2 July 2012]; the object shown appears to be in the open, not inside a church; it appears to contain a font similar to those at Équennes, Gentelles, etc., a round basin in a square-top frame and angle colonnettes; the simple decoration consists of a few mouldings on the angle colonnettes, and there maybe a trace of saw-tooth decoration on the upper basin sides, but the surface is too eroded by the elements now; unlike the others it has a large block on top, which may be unrelated to the original font, the base of a large stone cross according to the source. The font is much eroded and covered in lichens. [NB: the basin of a font from this church is noted as having installed "comme support du vieux calvaire d’Havernas" [source: www.cc-valdenievre.fr/medias/files/plan-de-visite-havernas-vf.pdf] [accessed 17 April 2016]]. The 17th-century 'calvaire', of which the old font forms the base, is listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116176].