Fransart / Fransant / Franserie / Fransières / Frossart

A description of the font at Fransart is given in from an original note submitted by a M. Buteux and read by M. Garnier to the session of 11 August 1874 of the Société des antiquaires de Picardie, as recorded in the society's Bulletins (tome XII, Paris; Amiens, 1876), p. 122: "Au dessus d'une maçonnerie de 16 centimètres est posé le vase des fonts composé de trois pierres calcaires superposées, ayant ensemble une hauteur de 75 centimètres, sous le couvercle moderne en bois et 72 également sous ce couvercle". The description was accompanied originally by a drawing of the font by Mlle. Maria Pechon, according to the above source. The font is illustrated in Enlart (1895). Enlart (1902) lists this font as a crude example of medieval fonts that can be dated to the mid-12th century by the moulding or rim. The font in the 1895 drawing consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides that curve around the underbowl to a short pedestal base, also octagonal; the lower base is octagonal-to-square, with a moulding atop, and four leaves at the angles of the square part. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80001465] as a baptismal font of the 12th century; no further details given.