Fescamps

INFORMATION

FontID: 03183FES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Fescamps

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: 28 Rue Grande Rue, 80500 Fescamps, France

Country Name: France

Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France

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 Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Cognate Fonts: Cluny (Saint-Marcel's), Escoeuilles, etc.

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.640206, 2.682306

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 38′ 24.74″ N, 2° 40′ 56.3″ E

UTM: 31U 477062 5498677

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

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