Bethencourt-sur-Mer / Béthencourt-sur-Mer / Bethonis Curtis ad mare / Bettonis Chortis / Bettonval / Blérancourt / Bouvaincourt
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design element - motifs - branch - in a wrap
Scene Description: trompe-l'oeil effect
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jacqueshalingre, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2014 by Jacqueshalingre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_fonts_baptismaux_(XIIIè_siècle).jpg] [accessed 24 April 2016]
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design element - motifs - foliage and fruit
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2014 by Jacqueshalingre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_fonts_baptismaux_(XIIIè_siècle).jpg] [accessed 24 April 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding - parallel - 3
Scene Description: very thick at the top to very thin at the bottom
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 September 2014 by Jacqueshalingre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_fonts_baptismaux_(XIIIè_siècle).jpg] [accessed 24 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2015 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Béthencourt-sur-Mer,_Somme,_France.JPG] [accessed 24 April 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jacqueshalingre, 2014
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archives départementales de la Somme, 2016
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1912, in Mnesys [http://archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/a011353927001qd7COB/1/1] [accessed 24 April 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03060BET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Grande rue (D229), 80130 Béthencourt-sur-Mer, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Béthencourt-sur-Mer is located on the D229, 25 km E of Abbeville, 5 km from the coastline
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: 13thC church?; present nave 18thC
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) in a group of octagonal fonts of Gothic style. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80000338] with date in the 16th century [some local sources date it 13thC] Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APDSF3428]. Baptismal font of stone consisting of an octagobal basin de corated with a trommpe l'oeil motif of tree branches wrapped in banner; another band below with foliage and fruit motifs; on an octagonal pedestal base decorated with mouldings at the bottom. Wooden font cover is octagonal, flat and plain, with turned handle-finial; locking bar secures to two staples in the upper rim of the basin.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 392977 5548441
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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