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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2007 [Mathieu.clabaut?] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreuil_Saint-saulve_nord.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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view of church exterior - south side

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by openroads.com [www.flickr.com/photos/59702449@N08/5485890344] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreuil-sur-Mer,_Abbatiale_Saint-Saulve_04.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2010 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montreuil-sur-Mer,_Abbatiale_Saint-Saulve_09.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 26)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph by N.D. Phot. [www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Montreuil_St_Saulve_fonds_bapt.jpg] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 2000

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 3 January 2012 by André Lemoine [http://www.wikipasdecalais.fr/index.php?title=Fichier:Montreuil_Sur_Mer_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 28 May 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03142MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Saulve de Montreuil-sur-Mer

Church Patron Saints: St. Saulve

Church Location: 62170 Montreuil [aka Montreuil-sur-Mer], France

Country Name: France

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

Directions to Site: Montreuil is located about 15 km SE of Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, 30 km S of Bologne-sur-Mer

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Marquise font [Enlart]

Church Notes: original monastery here ca. 6thC; housed the monks escaping from Landevennec early 10thC; church re-built 12thC; re-built late-15th-16thC; became parish church after the Revolution

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The basin is a plain square block of limestone, with no ornamentation at all, not even a moulding or incision [an oddity considering the affluence of this community in the 13th century and later in the 17th century], unless its sides were trimmed off during the religious wars. The four corner columns, on the other hand, are elegant with capitals and bases; the wider central column is a plain cylinder, as is common in these five-column fonts. The basin well was partitioned at a later date into two halves by inserting a vertical divider in its centre. The wooden lid is rather ornate for this area of France. The font is listed by Enlart (1902) as a 13th century Marquise font. Illustrated in Ronse (1929: fig. 26) and described as having a "silhouette de l'école Tournaisienne du XIIe siècle", while noting that the colonnettes and the basin denote a later period. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001090]: "Calcaire oolithe [...] 13e siècle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.4639, 1.76346

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 27′ 50.04″ N, 1° 45′ 48.46″ E

UTM: 31U 412238 5590942

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire oolithe)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Rim Thickness: 10.5 cm (26 cm at corners)

Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm

Basin Total Height: 35 cm

Height of Base: 57 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 77 x 77 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site [NB: the plinth is rectangular (77 x 65 cm)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: square platform with scroll ribs around a centre pivot; urn finial; modern

REFERENCES

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

Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929