Chiry / Chiry-Ourscamp
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human figure - head - grotesque - 8
Scene Description: some are grotesque; one or two are animal-like; one head is missing
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Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2005 by C. David [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR22_19966002251ZA] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Chiry-Ourscamp"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 August 2017 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Chiry-Ourscamp_4.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp" -- showing the remains of the abbey church
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chiry-Ourscamp (60), église Notre-Dame, vue depuis le sud-ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2020 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chiry-Ourscamp_(60),_église_Notre-Dame,_vue_depuis_le_sud-ouest_2.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion), pierre:"
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2005 by C. David [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/IVR22_19966002251ZA] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of font - drawing
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion), coupe (dessin : Encre sur papier)"
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Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing [Procédé non photographique] [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP60W01320] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise de Chiry (Oise) : les fonts baptismaux 14FI14/16, P ROS 14/16 Archives de la Somme"
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: " Fonts baptismaux ; Statuette."
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Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00028758] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03095CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de l’Assomption de Notre-Dame
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 60138 Chiry-Ourscamp, France
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Chiry is located about 25 km NE of Compiegne, S of Noyon, up the N32.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Noyon
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Villangoujard and Cambronne nearby.
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as "fonts en forme de navette" and dated to the 12th-13th century. The entry for this church in Eglises de l'Oise [https://www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/chiry-ourscamps-eglise-de-lassomption-notre_dame/] [accessed 16 March 2025] reports: "La cuve baptismale du 13ème siècle, ornée à chaque angle d’une tête humaine, et un Saint-Roch du 15ème siècle proviennent de l’abbaye d’Ourscamp." Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM60000525]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale à infusion) [...] Cuve de plan octogonal creusée en plan circulaire et ornée à la base de chaque angle d'une tête humaine sculptée en haut relief [...] Figures grimaçantes à chaque angle de la cuve [...] H=89 ; l=116 ; la= 87 [...] Il manque une tête. La cuve est fendue. Ragreages anciens au ciment [...] 1er quart 13e siècle [...] Dans le bas-côté nord [...] Fonts baptismaux du début du 13e siècle provenant de l'abbaye d'Ourscamps ; ils ont été déplacés dans l'église paroissiale après la Révolution et la destruction de l'abbaye." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00028758, AP60W01320, AP60W01321, AP60W00193, IVR22_19966002251ZA]
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: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.