Tubersent / Thorbodessem / Thornbodeshem / Torbodessa / Tubesent / Turbodessem

Results: 14 records

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - biting its own tail (ouroboros)

Scene Description: in the rightmost circle; the body of the animal faces left but its head goes under and around towards the right to bite its own tail

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

animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - in a circle

Scene Description: in the second circle from the left

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

animal - mammal - lion - gardant - in a circle

Scene Description: in the leftmost circle on this side of the basin

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

design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: in the lower spandrels of this side

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

design element - motifs - foliage - trefoiled leaves

Scene Description: a schematic trefoiled plant or foliage in avery spandrel created by the ribbons; (Drake (2003: 344) describes them as "'piles' flanked by heads" but on close inspection they are definitely vegetal motifs; one or two may suggest the schematic rendering of a cherub

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

design element - motifs - ribbon - 2

Scene Description: two mirror-like ribbons with folds at the angles, creating romboid spaces that frame the bunches of arum (?)

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

human figure - head - in a circle

Scene Description: in the third cricle from the left

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

inscription

Scene Description: "1430" incised (rather than inscribed) on the otherwise blank third side of the basin

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

symbol - fruit - arum or grape - 3

Scene Description: on the 2nd side of the basin

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

view of church exterior - northwest view

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

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Scene Description: the Tubersent war memorial by the south side of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 February 2007 by Loïc Vambre [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tubersent_monument_aux_morts.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2011 by Thadée Szalamacha [

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

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

view of font cover

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 03138TUB

Church/Chapel: Egtlise paroissiale Saint-Etienne

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: impasse de l'Eglise, 62630 Tubersent, France

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: Located off the D145, just N of Saint-Josse, 6 kms E of Etaples, 9 km E of Le Touquet, about 30 km SSE of Boulogne-s-Mer, about 6 kms E of Etaples. There are many such fonts listed for this area.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Arras [Boulogne?]

Historical Region: Le Boulonnais

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, N side

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font / Marquise [Enlart]

Cognate Fonts: Hesdres [and Newenden a/p Drake (2003)]

Church Notes: present church 16thC; modified 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The old baptismal font at Tubersent is noted as "très remarquables" in the Dictionnaire historique et archéologique du Département du Pas (Arras: Sueur-Charruey, 1875), vol. 3, p. 127. Listed and illustrated in Enlart (1890) and (1902) as a late-12th century Marquise font on a 5-support base decorated with medallions containg several motifs and symbols. Classed as 'monument historique' 11 March 1902: "Sur la proposition du Directeur des Beaux-Arts, ARRÊTE : Article 1er. — Les fonts baptismaux en pierre, du XIIe siècle, conservés dans l'église de Tubersent (Pas-de-Calais), sont classés parmi les monuments historiques. Article 2. — Le présent arrêté sera notifié au Préfet du département du Pas-de-Calais, au Maire de la commune de Tubersent et au Trésorier du Conseil de fabrique de l'église de cette commune, qui seront responsables, chacun en ce qui le concerne, de son exécution. Paris, le 11 mars 1902." Described and illustrated in Drake (2003), who relates it to the fonts at Hesdres and Newenden, the latter newly identified in Drake as a produce of the Boulonnais. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001602] as a baptismal font of the 12th century: "Pilier cylindrique cantonné de quatre colonnettes engagées portant une cuve quadrangulaire, le tout en calcaire oolithe." On-site notes: slightly irregular square (83 x 87 cm) basin mounted on a plain cylindrical central column with four constructional colonnettes at the corners (one of them missing - June 2000); the ornamentation of the basin is in line with other Tournai-type fonts: one side has four circles containing each: a lion, an unidentified animal, a face or mask and another unidentified animal; the second side has a pattern of double zig-zag with vine and grapes or arum in the gaps; the third side is blank escept for the date "1430" inscribed on it [the date is too late to be the original date of manufacture of the font]; the fourth side has four circles containing each: a rosette, and eagle, a face and an animal. There has been further manipulation of this font: the basin well was filled with concrete and a marble double bowl inserted in it at some point in the past.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 408220 5597316

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [calcaire oolithe]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: now has a double bowl

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Height of Basin Side: 17 cm

Basin Total Height: 35 cm

Height of Base: 59 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 94 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 83 x 87 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: inside measurements not available due to the reconstruction of the basin well]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: Incised on an otherwise blank side; a later addition

Inscription Location: Side of the basin

Inscription Text: "1430"

Inscription Source: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Notes: Partly pyramidal with finial.

REFERENCES

Anchel Balaguer, Constantino, "La iniciación cristiana de Josemaría Escrivá: bautismo, confirmación y primera comunión", XI [separat del Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia, no. 6 (2002: 75-101), Cuadernos del Centro de Documentación y Estudios Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 2002

Enlart, Camille, "Etude sur quelques fonts baptismaux du nord de la France: Mémoire présenté au Congrès de la Sorbonne", 1890, Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1890, pp. 46-73; r["References"]

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