Viffort / Vicus fortis
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human figure - face, head or mask - 4?
Scene Description: showing one such here
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Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2014 by G.Garitan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autel_fonts_baptismaux_03781.JPG] [accessed 7 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort (Aisne, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François GOGLINS, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2017 by François GOGLINS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viffort-FR-02-église-a3.jpg] [accessed 7 March 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "Nef [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250307011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![Source caption: "Nef vers portail [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250307010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef vers portail [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."
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view of church interior - capital
![Source caption: "Chapiteau [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250307009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chapiteau [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."
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view of font in context - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Autel fonts baptismaux [...] en l'Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort."
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02984VIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Cognate Fonts: Ployart, Fontenoy, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église de la Nativité-de-la-Sainte-Vierge de Viffort
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115980]: "12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Church Address: 1 Rte de Condé, 02540 Viffort, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D1-D46 crossroads, about 12 km SSE of Château-Thierry
Historical Region: La Brie Champenoise / Picardie
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as one of several 11-12th century Tournai-like stone fonts mounted on a columnar base in one reference; later on in the same source Enlart lists is with a group of Renaissance fonts (!)
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 533541 5423233
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.9611, 3.45821
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 57′ 39.96″ N, 3° 27′ 29.56″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
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 and p. 775 footnote 5