Limay

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Christ - Agnus Dei

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animal - mammal - ox / oxen

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind

Scene Description: probably 36 arches
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design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a quatrefoil

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design element - motifs - floral - in a circle

Scene Description: two of them, garland-like
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design element - motifs - floral - in a trefoil

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a cinquefoil

design element - motifs - foliage

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symbol - cross

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: FONT digital photograph in Topic-Topos [http://fr.topic-topos.com/cuve-baptismale-limay] [accessed 29 August 2013] NO PERMIT FONT B&W photograph taken by Félix Martin-Sabon in Mémoire [ref.: APMH047804 -- NUMP: MH0047804] [accessed 29 August 2013] COPYRIGHT Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN
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INFORMATION

FontID: 03091LIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Aubin
Church Patron Saints: St. Aubin [aka Albinus of Angers]
Church Location: 2 rue Eglise, 78520 Limay
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Limay is just N of Mantes-la-Jolie, about 30 kms W of Paris.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Versailles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Gassicourt, Mantes, Vétheuil, Montchauvet
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00087470]: "époque de construction 12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 16e siècle"
Font Notes:
Described in Gailhabaud (1858): "la cuve de Limay méritait-elle d'être signalée comme l'une des plus intéressantes compositions en ce genre. [...] La première des questions qui a trait à l'étude des fonts de Limay est, avons-nous dit, celle des formes, abstraction faite, bien entendu, de la figure tout exceptionnelle qu'ils décrivent; nous parlons ici de leur constitution comme monument baptismal. Selon nous, on pourrait les considérer comme un produit qui a dû résulter de la combinaison de la cuve avec les fonts à pédicule, et l'on devrait, peut-être, les regarder comme une sorte de passage, comme une espèce de transition occupant une place entre ces deux formes, puisque le pédicule, eu égard à son indécision et à son peu de hauteur, y apparaît à peine, tandis que la cuve s'y développe d'une manière telle qu'elle impose, pour ainsi dire, son aspect à l'ensemble. Dans cet état, le monument rappelle, sous un certain point de vue, les dispositions de la cuve romane; mais, l'art en a modifié plusieurs parties et rectifié surtout bien des incorrections; néanmoins, c'est toujours la cuve, mais la cuve mise maladroitement et sans goût sur une base tellement large qu'elle épouse presque les proportions du réservoir; ce qui produit à l'œil une silhouette lourde et peu gracieuse." Described in Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire..., (t. 5, p. 537) as being a "barlongue"[=oblong] font of the early 13th century, dodecagonal in the outside perimeter and oval-shaped on the inside. The ornamentation consists of a garland along the upper register, while the second register has a series of twelve rose windows among which can be found an Agnus Dei, a cross and a bovine head; the base is ornamented with a blind arcade. The most curious caractheristic about this font, according to Viollet-le-Duc, is actually found on the pavement around the base of the font: "huit disques de pierre grise incrustés au nu de dalles, et qui semblent marquer les places des personnes qui doivent entourer la cuve au moment du baptême." He also mentions the evidence of a font lid on the basin rim [NB: the cover appears to be flat and adapted to the shape of the basin; it is hinged in the centre, with the sides openingfrom the rim; a locking bar appears to be in place. Enlart (1902) lists it simply as a 13th cent. "vasque polygonale oblongue, sur pied très court". Described also in some detail in Lasteyrie (1926-1927). The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) describes it succintly as a 13th-century dodecagonal font and gives the font at Vétheuil as cognate. Described and illustrated more recently in Le patrimoine des communes des Yvelines (2000). [NB: It is difficult to understand why Viollet-le-duc would compare the font at Limay with the one at Thoureil, since they are so different: the one plain, the other well ornamented; the one oblong, the other octagonal; the one mounted, the other tub-like; was there another font at Limay the shape of which would resemble the font at Thoureil? ["dont la forme se rapproche encore de celle-ci"]. Listed and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH047804 -- NUMP: MH0047804]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.994556, 1.73196
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 59′ 40.4″ N, 1° 43′ 55.06″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round? / oval?
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Trapezoidal Basin: 105 x 73.5 cm
Notes on Measurements: Measurements calculated from Viollet-le-Duc's illustration

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Le Patrimoine des communes des Yvelines [2 vols.], Paris: FLOHIC, 2000
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Gailhabaud, Jules, L’architecture du V au XVII siêcle et les arts qui en dependent: la sculpture, la peinture murale, la peinture sur verre, la mosâique, la ferronnerie, etc., Paris: Gide, 1858
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
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868