Nogent-l'Artaud

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Image Source: B&W image in the Palissy/Memoire database [NUMP MH0028100]

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human figure - demi-figure

Scene Description: at least one, above the foliage

Image Source: B&W image in the Palissy/Memoire database [NUMP MH0028099]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the underbowl of the basin and the capitals

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 395)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Germain de Nogent-l'Artaud; (département de l'Aisne , région Picardie)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2013 by Thor19 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nogent-l'Artaud_église_St_Germain.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03094NON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Gothic

Cognate Fonts: Ver, Chartres cathedral and Rousseloy in France. Of a related shape, though not identical, the Cornish fonts at Roche, Bodmin, etc. in England

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Germain

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]

Previous Font Location(s): Seine-et-Marne?

Church Notes: 13thC church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115844]

Church Address: 02310 Nogent-l'Artaud, France

Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Nogent-l'Artaud [Enlart has "Nongent-l'Artaud" and later "Nogent..."] is located 85 km from Paris, about 12 kms SSW of Château-Thierry, on the southern banks of the Marne. Enlart puts it in Seine-et-Marne and later in Aisne.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin

Historical Region: Canton de Charly sur Marne, Picardie

Font Notes: Click to view

Richard's guide of 1866 reports a 12th-century baptismal font in this church. Illustrated in Enlart (1902): a font somewhat related in shape to those of Bodmin and Roche in England, with a round basin [the Cornish fonts have a hemispherical basin instead] whose sides are ornamented with foliage all around, as well as at least one demi-figure and what may be either floral motifs or damaged cherub heads; at the upper part it becomes octagonal and, at the very top it is square, with the shape given by the four colonnettes which support the basin together with the much larger cylindrical central column; the capitals of the colonnettes have foliage ornamentation as well. Lasteyrie (1927-1927), after Enlart, describes it simply as "assez belle". It is a style of font found in France in the early Gothic period [cf. other such fonts at Ver, Chartres cathedral and Rousseloy]. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02000862] as "2e moitié 13e siècle".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 523645 5423770

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.966389, 3.323056

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 57′ 59″ N, 3° 19′ 23″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: cauldron

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 100 x 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM02000862]

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, fig. 395, p. 777 footnote 4, p. 778 footnote 2
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, vol. 2, p. 505
Richard [aka Audin, Jean-Marie Vincent], [pseud. de Jean-Marie Vincent Audin], Guide du voyageur en France, Paris: L. Hachette, 1866, p. 733