Nielles-les-Ardres / Nielles-lès-Ardres / Nielle-lès-Ardres

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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - facing each other - 2

Scene Description: separated by a vertical bar or band

Image Source: Drake (2002: pl. 141)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: on two contiguous sides of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc; support verre (NUMP) MH0078731], in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00078731] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0418/sap01_mh00078731_p.jpg] [accessed 23 July 2017]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: together with tendrils or scroll motif

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: scroll or tendrils, together with palmette motifs

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2013 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nielles-lès-Ardres_(Pas-de-Calais,_Fr)_Église_Saint-Pierre_(02).JPG] [accessed 23 July 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font

Scene Description: note the barbaric re-cut of the basin sides to make the font octagonal in the later fashion; notice also the lead insert that divides the inner well into two parts; there is one metal staple in the upper rim of the font, a remnant from an old cover lock

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 02975NIE

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 17-27 rue du Village, 62610 Nielles-lès-Ardres, France

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: Located off the D225 and the D943, 4 km ESE of Ardres, 25 km NW of Saint-Omer, 30 km SE of Calais, 36 km NE of Boulogne-sur-Mer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century (early) (?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font / Boulonnais font

Church Notes: church built ca.1160 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108366] with 12thC date

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Enlart (1902) as one of several Tournai-like square fonts mounted on a column base and dated to the 11-12th century; the basin sides are ornamented. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM62001153] with date in the 12th century. Described in Oursel (1994) as one of the decorated baptismal fonts of the Boulonnais workshops in the ochre limastone known as 'pierre de Marquise'; the basin is square, but with taller sides than the usual basins of these workshops; the four sides are decorated in lino-cut-like low-relief: 1) and 2) blind arcade of round arches similar to the ones found in the Mosan fonts; 3)scroll and palmette motifs; 4)side divided by a vertical bar into two frames, each containing a facing lion in a strange, almost sejant position; the underbowl has foliage motif; raised on a cylindrical pedestal base. Described and illustrated in Drake (2002), who shows and comments on the disastrous effect brought about by the unfortunate slicing off of the angles of the basin at a diagonal angle outwards from the top. Both Drake and Oursel note the horse-like characteristics of the two lions, Oursel charitably conceding that the sculptor was obviously more familiar with the domestic equine than with the exotic feline, thereby transfering some of the anatomic features of the latter onto the former. Oursel advises that the font should probably be dated to the early years of the 12th century, the crudeness of the carving notwithstanding. The inner well of the font has a lining that divides it into two parts; this was not an original feature of the font; it appears in the pre-1925 photograph in Palissy [cf. supra] but not in Drake's own photograph.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.829072, 2.043239

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 49′ 44.66″ N, 2° 2′ 35.66″ E

UTM: 31U 432619 5631254

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Marquise)

Font Shape: square (mounted) [re-cut to octagonal]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square [re-cut to octagonal]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [the lining has a partition that divides the well into two parts] [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

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