Belloy / Belloy-en-France

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angel - cherub - head

Scene Description: [or a putto?] on a tall pillaster

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design element - architectural - scroll

Scene Description: contains the inscription with the 1524 date

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one of them with a crenellated pattern below

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human figure - male - head - wearing fool's hat

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human figure - male - lower body inside a cornucopia horn - 2

Scene Description: the two hold in their hands the scroll with the inscription

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view of church exterior - east view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: a salamander in the right spandrel

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03112BEL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Georges
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: 95270 Belloy-en-France, France
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the St-Denis area, 15 kms N of Le Bourget, 25 km N of Paris; in the canton de Viarmes, arrondissement de Montmorency
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Historical Region: Pays de France
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1524
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Renaissance
Church Notes: a church here is documented in 840, but destroyed in the 9thC; replaced; added to ca.1150; enlarged in 13th and 14thC; burnt down in 1430; re-built in the 16thC; west façade restored in 1851 by Viollet-le-Duc. -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080003]
Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval font dated to 1524 thorugh an inscribed date on the basin side; the date is contained in a "cartouche" [=scroll] held by two grotesque male figures, their lower bodies locked inside cornucopia-type horns. The sides of the stem of the base are ornamented with foliage motifs, grotesque heads wearing "bonnets de fou" [=fool's hats]. The greenish colour of the stone gives the font the appearence of oxidated bronze. Listed by Enlart (1902) simply as a Renaissance pedestal font. It probably has two basin wells though this is not discernible from the source. Listed also in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ), where the ornamentation is described as grotesque human heads or heads of dolphins, and dated to the 16th century. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM95000775] with date in the 16th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.089543, 2.367884
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 5′ 22.36″ N, 2° 22′ 4.38″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French and Roman numerals
Inscription Location: in a cartouche on the basin side
Inscription Text: "Lan md [upper c] xxiiii" [the "b" for a 'd']
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999, v. 2, p. 943)

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902