Mogneville No. 1 / Liancourt / Magesivallis / Monachivilla / Mognevilla / Moigneville / Moineville / Moinneville / Moinville / Mongneville / Monnachivilla / Monneville / Moyneville

Noted in Graves (1837): "Les fonts baptismaux représentent un énorme chapiteau roman orné de volutes, de monstres et de palmes. Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 11-12th century Tournai-like square font mounted on a single-column base (Enlart gives the dept. as Aisne). Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a baptismal font shaped like a large capital and ornamented with palmettes, fig-tree, dragon and with scrolls of beaded-tape. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM60001071] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr] [accessed 1 July 2012] as a limestone baptismal font of the first quarter of the 12th century, contemporary with a holy-water stoup also in this church; the font is reported in very poor conservation [= "Cuve baptismale rectangulaire reposant sur un pied circulaire. La cuve est sculptée en relief engagé. [...] pierre calcaire [...] ornement végétal (volute, feuille, fleur) ; animal ; ornementation (pointe de diamant) [...] Oeuvre de la 1ère moitié du 12e siècle contemporaine du bénitier de la même église. [...] mauvais état [...] Cuve cloisonnée avec des briques. Ragréage au ciment sur la ceinture de la cuve et sur la base. Nombreux éclats de la ceinture. Développement de mousse."] [NB: this object appears listed in the Palissy (ibid.) entry as Liancourt, not Mogneville]. The font consists of a thick square upper volume decorated with a moulding, terribly damaged now; below the angles of the rim are large scrolls of nail-head motif, and a lion or dragon (?) between them; there is a pair of roll mouldings below, and a larger moulding forms the lower base or plinth [NB: the animal, though identified as a dragon in the Dictionnaire... [cf. supra] is carved in the usual 12th-13th century way in which lions are shown, with four legs, passant-regardant, and the tail forward over the rump]. The inner well of the basin, which is of octagonal shape, has been divided vertically into two compartments, this partition a later alteration. [cf. Index entry for Mogneville No. 2 for the stoup of the same period in this church].