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design element - architectural - capital - foliated - 4
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03129AUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [Enlart], Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font / Boulonnais font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Dannes, Condette, Audrehem, Henneveux, Hervelinghem, Saint-Martin-Choquel and others are of this same general type
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Medard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the N doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Address: 62890 Audrehem, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D223, 20 km ENE of Boulogne-s-Mer, in the Parc naturel régional des Caps et Marais d'Opale
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras
Historical Region: Pays de Lumbres
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 12th-century Marquise font with a 5-support base. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62000211] as a baptismal font of the 12th century. Listed in Oursel (1994) in a group of fonts sharing a general design and made from a local limestone of ochre colour known as 'pierre de Marquise'; other fonts listed in that group are Dannes, Condette, Audrehem, Cormont, Henneveux, Hervelinghem, Saint-Martin-Choquel. Listed in Drake (2002) as a Marquise font. Baptismal font consisting of a plain saure basin raised on a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, the latter with foliated capitals, and all five of them with roll mouldings.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 426661 5623098
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.755019, 1.960281
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 45′ 18.07″ N, 1° 57′ 37.01″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Marquise)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 68, 177
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote
- Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 231