Montsoult
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view of font - upper view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsoult (95), église Saint-Sulpice, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 15 June 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montsoult_(95),_église_Saint-Sulpice,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2025]
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view of font
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view of font
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human figure - child - prone position
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsoult (95), église Saint-Sulpice, fonts baptismaux, frise"
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human figure - child - prone position
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsoult (95), église Saint-Sulpice, fonts baptismaux, frise" -- much damaged/eroded
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design element - motifs - vine - grape - with grape bunches
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design element - patterns - gadrooned or ribbed
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsoult (95), église Saint-Sulpice, bénitier"
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design element - motifs - geometric - varied
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 15 June 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montsoult_(95),_église_Saint-Sulpice,_fonts_baptismaux_1.JPG] [accessed 15 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03082MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century (mid?), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Sulpice de Montsoult
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sulpice [aka Sulpitius]
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church re-built mid-16thC; restored 1970s -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080135]: "1543"
Church Address: 5-9 Rue de la Mairie, 95560 Montsoult, France
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Montsoult is located off the D64, W of the N1, 25-30 km N of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a Renaissance octagonal font. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a torus-scotia at the upper end, and a deeply-carved grapevine below in which two(?) naked children in a prone position; the underbowl is gadrooned or ribbed; the stem of the pedestal base is octagonal and decorated with geometric and stylised foliage on the sides, the lower end with stops at four sides to turn into the square lower base. There is significant damage to the upper rim where the metal staples for the anchoring of a font cover split the stone. No cover present.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 449586 5435551
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.07076, 2.30976
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 4′ 14.74″ N, 2° 18′ 35.14″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775-776 footnote 5