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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Acather96, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2010 by Acather96 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St.Pierre_Church,Longfossé.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2017]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Potrowl, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2014 by Peter Potrowl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longfossé_-_Église_Saint-Pierre_-_4.jpg] [accessed 20 July 2017]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: thick ones, forming the capitals of the four outer colonnettes of the base
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: thick ones, forming the bases of the five supports of the base
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03136LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side, beneath the stairs leading to the W gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the present church is 17thC
Church Address: 62240 Longfossé, France
Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 15 km SE of Boulogne-s-Mer, off the D52 between Samer and Desvres. Many other such fonts are listed in the immediate area.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Arras
Historical Region: Parc naturel régional des Caps et Marais d'Opale
Font Notes:
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The entry for Longfossé in Épigraphie du département de Pas-de-Calais, issued by the Commission départementale des monuments historiques du Pas-de-Calais (Arras, 1886), t. 3: 508 fn4, notes: "On remarque dans la nef des fonts baptismaux à cinq supports, du XIIe siècle; colonnes indépendantes du tronc central; sculpture grossière." Notes also in Joanne's Géographie du département du Pas-de-Calais (Paris, 1895), p. 68 as a 12th-century font. The font here is listed by Enlart (1902) as a 12th century Marquise font on a five-support base. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM62000996] as a 13th-century stone font "A quatre colonnes."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 415930 5611508
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.6429, 1.8388
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 38′ 57″ N, 1° 48′ 41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat wooded frame with low pyramidal centre topped with a dross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 1