Dargnies / Dérgny / Durgnies

INFORMATION

FontID: 03036DUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Wandrille de Dargnies
Church Patron Saints: St. Wandrille [aka Vandrille]
Church Location: Place Jean Moulin, 80570 Dargnies, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Dargnies is located off the D2-D19 junction, 24 km SW of Abbeville, 65 km from Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Century and Period: 13th century (?), Medieval
Church Notes: an earlier [13thC(?) church and its cemetery are recorded in the 1825 cadastre; the present church is a mid-19thC re-building [https://www.dargnies.fr/decouvrir-dargnies/histoire-du-village/] and [https://inventaire.hautsdefrance.fr/dossier/IA80010015] [accessed 10 March 2025]
Font Notes:
Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings; later in the same source [NB: the 1906 addendum and commentary to Enlart's Manuel by Ph. des Forts [https://1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/files/original/f0106c4a49bc93ddee7cd5669c5847771a62992d.pdf] [accessed 10 March 2025] corrects the original "Durgnies" by "Dargnies" and describes the church and font there as modern. A baptismal font in Dargnies is noted and illustrated in Richesses-en-Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-eglises-suite/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-en-marbre/] [accessed 10 March 2025].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.0425, 1.5261
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 2′ 33″ N, 1° 31′ 33.96″ E
UTM: 31U 394465 5544397

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902