Pitteffaux / Pittefaux
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02976PIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Cognate Fonts: Ames, Nielles-les-Ardres, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale
Church Notes: Mérimée [ref.: IA62000103] lists the vestiges of a 'Église paroissiale Saint-Martin" of 1653 in Pittefaux
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Pittefaux (one "f") is about 5 km NE of Boulogne-sur-Mer. [NB: Enlart has it as "Pitteffaux"]. Only vestiges remain of the former parish church
Font Notes:
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One of several Tournai-like square fonts mounted on a column base listed by Enlart and dated to the 11th-12th century (Enlart, 1902)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 2