Bouvaincourt-sur-Bresle / Bovaincourt / Bovencort / Bovincourt
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Image Source: digital image of a 1912 B&W photograph [14FI14/17 (Cote(s))] from the Collection photographique déposée par la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie (SAP), in the Archives départementales de la Somme [https://archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/j3rkfmw79h8v] [accessed 6 May 2022] [accessed 6 May 2022]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2014
Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 1 May 2016]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © APictche, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2015 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouvaincourt-sur-Bresle,_Somme,_France.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2016]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 21 March 2022 [source not available] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03018BOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century / 17th century, Late Romanesque / Renaissance?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Hilaire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hilary of Poitiers
Church Notes: 12thC tower; 13thC chancel; 14thC transept; 15thC nave
Church Address: 105 rue de la République, 80220 Bouvaincourt-sur-Bresle, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Bouvaincourt is off the D1015, on the N banks of the Bresle river, between Beauchamps (SE) and Oust-Marest (NW), 30 km SW of Abbeville, 65 km from Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of difficult to date fonts. The listing for this font in Palissy [ref.: PM80002814] notes: "Fonts baptismaux [...] en forme de mortier [...] Grès : taillé [...] Fonts probablement datés du 17e siècle [...] H=93". Illustrated in Mémoire [image ref.: DSF 3212 P]. Noted and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 1 May 2016]: "Les fonts baptismaux en grès ont la forme d'une coupe circulaire très trapue sur un pied cylindrique épaté et très court, dépourvus de toute ornementation. Il parait très difficile de les dater." [NB: this source names the church as "St Etienne"]. The plain tub-shaped basin is raised on squat circular base; the bottom of the base appears to be made up of small stones or bricks. Wooden cover round, flat and plain; appears modern; two metal staples at opposite ends on the upper rim.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his additional information on this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 391878 5543247
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.031053, 1.4881704
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 1' 51.8" N, 1° 29' 17.4" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM80002814]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 2