Soyecourt / Soyécourt
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Results: 16 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: a row of on each side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: two bands on this side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bycro, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Bycro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martial_de_Soyécourt,_fonts_baptismaux_1.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - architectural - column - with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the five supports have moulded capitals and bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - foliage - waterleaf
Scene Description: forming the capitals of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Scene Description: seen here on the right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - plant or tree
Scene Description: one such seen here between the capitals, on the right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: seen here on the left side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - motifs varied
Scene Description: varied motifs in the spandrels of this side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bycro, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Bycro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martial_de_Soyécourt,_fonts_baptismaux_1.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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design element - patterns - wave
Scene Description: seen here on the left side of the basin; not a common pattern on Romanesque fonts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2023
Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 26 July 2023]:
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one such is visible here, in the spandrel just left of the centre capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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symbol - fruit - grapes?
Scene Description: some of them, seen here on the right, appear to be bunches of grapes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Soyécourt, église Saint-Martial"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ybroc, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 27 October 2018 by Ybroc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyécourt,_église_Saint-Martial_(8).jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martial de Soyécourt, nef et chœur" -- inside the new church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bycro, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Bycro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martial_de_Soyécourt,_nef_et_chœur_1.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a B&W negative [MH0029425] by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martial de Soyécourt, fonts baptismaux en pierre calcaire (XIIe siècle)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bycro, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Bycro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martial_de_Soyécourt,_fonts_baptismaux_1.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Martial de Soyécourt, fonts baptismaux en pierre calcaire (XIIe siècle)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bycro, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2020 by Bycro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martial_de_Soyécourt,_fonts_baptismaux_2.jpg] [accessed 26 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03147SOY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martial [the new church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martial
Church Location: 2 Rue de Wallieux, 80200 Soyécourt, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D79, N oof the A29, about 30 km E of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, in the baptistery chapel
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: atelier de Villers-Carbonnel [Enlart]
Church Notes: church destroyed in WWI; the medieval font survived; new church in 1918
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 13th-century Tournai-type font from the atelier de Villers-Carbonnel in Somme. Noted and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00029425] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00029425] [accessed 26 July 2023]; the photograph by Camille Enlart was probably taken inside the old church, before its destruction in WWI; it shows the font with a wooden cover on it. Described and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 26 July 2023]: " Après la guerre 14/18, dans les décombres de l'église, on a retrouvé, à peu près intacte, un peu rougie par le feu, la cuve baptismale, véritable joyau de l'église. Ces fonts baptismaux du XIIIe s. produits par l'atelier de Villers Carbonnel, se composent d'une cuve hémisphérique sur un fût cylindrique, cantonnée de quatre colonnettes. Les chapiteaux de ces colonnettes sont très évasés et formés de quatre volutes entre lesquelles est figurée une sorte de pomme de pin, ou même un visage humain. Sur tranche de la plate-bande supérieure sont sculptés, en méplat, des ornements formés généralement d'arcs de cercle, dont le dessin varie à chaque face. Sur une des faces, des portions de cercles, de même rayon, enlacées les unes dans les autres, forment une sorte de méandre irrégulier, fort curieux." Recent [August 2020] photographs of the old font [cf. ImagesArea] show it installed in the baptistery chapel of the new church, provided with a different cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.865142, 2.792273
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 51′ 54.51″ N, 2° 47′ 32.18″ E
UTM: 31U 485071 5523657
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902