Liancourt-la-Fosse / Liancourt-Fosse
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02979LIA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Selincourt, Sains, Languevoisin, Cannectancourt, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Médard
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Address: 80700 Liancourt-la-Fosse, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the RN17,
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Communauté de communes du Grand Roye
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (unknown whereabouts by 1993)
Font Notes:
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One of several 11-12th century Tournai-like square fonts mounted on a columnar base listed by Enlart (1902); Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80000814]: "fonts baptismaux [...] La cuve est rectangulaire, à fond sphérique. Elle est dotée de quatre colonnettes avec chapiteaux à crochets. [...] 13e siècle". The entry in Palissy (ibid.), dated 1993, adds "oeuvre disparue"; the font had been classed in Monuments historiques in 1915.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
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. 767 footnote 1; p. 774 footnote 2