Templeux-le-Guerard / Templeux-le-Guérard
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03176TEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century [Enlart], Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Médard de Templeux-le-Guérard
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Notes: church dynamited 1917
Church Address: 80240 Templeux-le-Guérard, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D406, about 16 km NW of St-Quentin, about 20 km E of Péronne, 23 km S of Cambrai
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Additional Comments: was the font destroyed in 1917?
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th or 15th century marble font mounted on a 5-support base, though a later reference in Enlart qualifies it as a square base with carved columns at the corners (one which developed from the earlier 5-support type).
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 510665 5534535
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.96307, 3.1487
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 57′ 47.05″ N, 3° 8′ 55.32″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 4, p. 778 footnote 1