Beaufort-en-Santerre

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B02: design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed and pinnacled arches

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Image Source: digital image in Richesses-en-Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-eglises-suite/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 9 March 2025]
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Christ - Christ in Majesty - Apostles - 12

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a thick band all around the underbowl
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view of basin - detail

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view of church exterior in context - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Beaufort-en-Santerre, Somme, France, église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption."
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view of font

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Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP80W00150] [accessed 8 March 2025]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 03029BEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Beaufort-en-Santerre
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Rue du Château, 80170 Beaufort-en-Santerre, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D161, 20 km NE of Montdidier, about 35 km SE of Amiens, 50 km NW of Compiegne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Beauchamp (Somme)
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116089]: "12e siècle"
Font Notes:
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th-century font "en forme de coupe octogone" with Christ and the Apostles depicted on it. Lasteyrie (1926-1927), who gives the font at Beauchamp as similar to this one, describes the basin as having an arcade with figures under the arches and foliage motif as ornamentation. The entry for this village in the French Wilipedia [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort-en-Santerre] [accessed 9 March 2025] mentions the baptismal font: "Les fonts baptismaux, surmontés d'un panneau portant la mention du dépôt du chef de saint Jean-Baptiste en 1206, datent du XIVe siècle et sont classés Monument historique. Réalisés en pierre taillée, ils portent en bas-relief, sur les flancs de la cuve, douze arcatures pour chacun des douze apôtres". Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80000296]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Pierre : taillé, décor en bas-relief [...] Sur les flancs de la cuve se trouvent douze arcatures abritant autant d'apôtres en bas-relief [...] 14e siècle". Illustrated in Mémoire [re.: AP80W00150]. The entry for this church in Richesses-en-Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-eglises-suite/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 9 March 2025] notes and illustrates the font: "Les fonts baptismaux du XIVe s. se composent d'une cuve dont la circonférence dépasse 3 mètres et présentent douze compartiments en arcades mitrées contenant les images en relief des douze apôtres avec leurs attributs symboliques. La cuve repose sur une colonne ronde et trapue, haute de 0,30mètres, sans base ni socle, et surmontée par un beau chapiteau à feuillages."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.776337, 2.667758
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 46′ 34.81″ N, 2° 40′ 3.93″ E
UTM: 31U 476079 5513816

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 95.50 cm*
Height of Base: 30 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-09 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927