Fescamps
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03183FES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: Cluny (Saint-Marcel's), Escoeuilles, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Fescamps
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 28 Rue Grande Rue, 80500 Fescamps, France
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Fescamps is located off (S) the D930, about 8 km E of Montdidier. Many fonts listed for this area around Montdidier.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a Renaissance marble font mounted on a five-column support. Lasteyrie (1926-1927) mentions it together with the one at Escoeuilles as examples of this type which continues well into the 16th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 477062 5498677
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.640206, 2.682306
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 38′ 24.74″ N, 2° 40′ 56.3″ 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 5
- Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927, vol. 2, p. 505 footnote 7