Sains-en-Amienois No. 2 / Sains-en-Amiénois
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02980SAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Cognate Fonts: Selincourt, Liancourt-la-Fosse
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saints Fuscien, Victoric et Gentien
Church Notes: Cf. Sains No. 1 for details. Enlart lists another font, a "double-font", as being in Sains as well.
Church Address: 80680 Sains-en-Amiénois, Somme, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: This is probably Sains-en-Amiénois, about 10 km S of Amiens down the D7, past St-Fuscien; the road continus to Estrées-sur-Noye, etc. Enlart lists another font in Sains, a Tournai-like font.
Historical Region: Amiénois
Font Notes:
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One of several 11th-12th century Tournai-like square fonts mounted on a column base listed by Enlart (Enlart, 1902)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 451004 5518596
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. 767 footnote 1; p. 774 footnote 2