Condette

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design element - motifs - leaf - 4

Scene Description: very large leaf capitals at underbowl level forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: several on all five columns of the base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Condette_-_Église_Saint-Martin_-_10.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Condette_-_Église_Saint-Martin_-_3.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of a late-19thC drawing by C. Normand, in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682], Inventaire général du Patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000682/IMAGES/IM62000682_005.JPG] [accessed 14 July 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: date of photograph not given in source (1905? / 1981?)

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an undated photograph, in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682], Inventaire général du Patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000682/IMAGES/IM62000682_009.JPG] [accessed 14 July 2017]

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view of font - plan, elevation and section

Image Source: digital image of a late-19thC drawing by C. Normand, in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682], Inventaire général du Patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000682/IMAGES/IM62000682_005.JPG] [accessed 14 July 2017]

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view of font - plan, elevation and section

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an undated drawing by Thierry Grislain and Jean Pierre Philipart, in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682], Inventaire général du Patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000682/IMAGES/IM62000682_007.JPG] [accessed 14 July 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the wooden font cover of the time, no longer used on this font

Image Source: digital image of a detail of an April 1884 drawing by V.J. Vaillant, in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682], Inventaire général du Patrimoine culturel du Nord-Pas-de-Calais [www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/memoire/HTML/IVR31/IM62000682/IMAGES/IM62000682_006.JPG] [accessed 14 July 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 21 June 2000 by BSI

view of font base - upper view - detail

Scene Description: showing the corner ends and the position of the cetral shaft and angle colonnettes

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 03131CON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin de Condette

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: rue Alexandre Adam, 62360 Condette, France

Country Name: France

Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: Located at the D240-D940 cross-roads, 10 km S of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the Agglomération du Boulonnais

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: Pas-de-Calais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N side, E end, in a chapel next to the altar

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), 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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 12th-century Marquise font on a five-support base. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62000487]: "Pilier cylindrique cantonnée de quatre colonnettes engagées et supportant une cuve quadrangulaire [...] 12e siècle". A fuller and illustrated listing of this font in Palissy [ref.: IM62000682]: "Fonts baptismaux [calcaire (beige)] sur soubassement de plan carré ; cuve en hémisphère aplati à haut rebord de plan et de section carrée, ouverture circulaire [...] 2e moitié 12e siècle"; the stone is described as "calcaire oolithique dit pierre de Marquise". Described in Oursel (1994: 231) as one of the fonts of a general type/design made of a local ochre limestone known as 'pierre de Marquise', although, in this case, it is smeared in a thick dreadful coat of whitewash; others in this group mentioned in Oursel are the fonts at Dannes, Condette, Audrehem, Cormont, Henneveux, Hervelinghem, Saint-Martin-Choquel. On-sitre notes: Square basin mounted on a central column and four detached colonnettes; the latter are very short whereas the leaf-shaped capitals are about 3/4 of the height. The exagerated underbowl (59 cm) makes the font look very chubby and heavy. The vanilla-white coat of thick paint generously applied to the whole font does not help either! The metal font cover is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.6545, 1.63813

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 39′ 16.2″ N, 1° 38′ 17.27″ E

UTM: 31U 403732 5612290

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Marquise)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 12 cm* (30 cm* at the corners)

Diameter (inside rim): 59-60 cm*

Basin Depth: 27 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 27 cm*

Basin Total Height: 76 cm* / 74.5 cm**

Height of Base: 28 cm*

Height of Central Column: 11.5 cm**

Height of Side Columns: 11.5 cm**

Font Height (with Plinth): 104 cm* / 110 cm**

Square Base Dimensions: 89 x 89 cm* / 90 x 90 cm**

Trapezoidal Basin: 88 x 89 cm* / 90 x 90 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: the shortness of the base is due to the large underbowl which is almost 60 cm tall] / ** Palissy [ref.: IM62000682]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century

Material: metal, iron

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round; modern [earlier cover documented in 1884 drawing]

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902

Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994