Montdidier No. 2
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 17 September 2020]
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design element - motifs and symbols - varied
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montdidier (Somme, France) - Fonts baptismaux de l'église du Saint-Sépulcre."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL), 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_église_St-Sépulcre_(fonts_baptismaux)_flou_1.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2008]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux du Saint-Sépulcre de Montdidier. - Héliogravure Dujardin, Paris."
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Image Source: digital image of a Héliogravure Dujardin, Paris, in Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Mon. 36a [https://patrimoine.abbeville.fr/collection/item/14567-fonts-baptismaux-du-saint-sepulcre-de-montdidier-heliogravure-dujardin-paris?offset=19] [accessed 10 February 2025]
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inscription - partial
Scene Description: in Gothic lettering; seen here on the upper level -- the shape between could a be a shield or such symbol
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animal - bird - swan?
Scene Description: two them in the middle level here
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Montdidier (Somme, France) - L'église du Saint-Sépulcre. La rue Parmentier descend vers la vallée et la voie ferrée."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL), 2008
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 January 2008 by Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montdidier_église_St-Sépulcre_1.jpg] [accessed 17 September 2008]
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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03178MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1539
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(mid), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église du Saint-Sépulchre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Sepulchre
Church Notes: church built by Templar Knight(s) 1146 outside the town walls; demolished 1411, it was re-built intramuros 1419; re-built 1510-1520; destroyed by Charles V's artillery 1523; restored thereafter; damaged 1918; restored in the entre-guerres; damaged again 1940; re-opened 1960 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116204]
Church Address: rue Racine, 80500 Montdidier, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of the D26, D41, D930, between Amiens (NW) and Compiègne (SW), about 35 kms NW of Compiegne up the D935, 40 kms SE of Amiens. Another font -16th cent.- in Montdidier at the church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 16th century font with corbelled supports ("supports en encorbellement"). The entry for this font in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 17 September 2020] reads: "Les fonts baptismaux datent de 1539 ainsi qu'en témoigne une inscription tracée en caractères gothiques et en dialecte picard. Ces fonts en pierre de La Faloise sont constitués d'une cuve basse et carrée dont les angles sont arrondis et couverts de feuillages, sur un pied central rond, renflé vers le bas et entouré de guirlandes. Quatre colonnettes soutiennent les angles couverts de motifs difficiles à déterminer après le badigeonnage effectué en 1870 sous prétexte de restauration!" The font consists of two blocks: a large basin with a roughly hemispherical and four columnar bulges protruding on the sides; the decoration with floral and foliage motifs, mouldings, etc., covers the basin proper as well as the bulges, but there are a few shapes that appear to be birds, and there is an inscription of Gothic characters in the Picard language [cf. supra]; the base, damaged with large cracks, is a round pedestal decorated with floral and foliage motifs.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 468827 5499389
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.646243, 2.568194
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 38′ 46.48″ N, 2° 34′ 5.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble?
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Picard [langue d'oïl dialect]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: flat and plain; looks modern
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 5