Martigny No. 1 / Martigniacus / Martiniacus / Martigny-en-Thiérache

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west façade

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03191MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: rue de l'église, 02500 Martigny, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D83-D38, between Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache (N) and Besmont (S), Buzilly (W) and Leuze (E), in the canton of Aubenton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin [formerly in the Diocèse de Laon]
Historical Region: Pays des Trois Rivières -- La Thiérache -- Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: 12th-13th church
Font Notes:
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 14th-15th century font on a square base derived from the former five-column type [NB: to be re-checked -- why would Enlart date this font so late?]. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM02001577] and described by Guiochon Xavier-Philippe in the Inventaire général, Région Picardie: "L'oeuvre est constituée de deux éléments de calcaire monolithe posés l'un sur l'autre. Le pied de plan carré à angles coupés est surmonté d'une cuve circulaire cantonnée de quatre têtes antropomorphes en haut relief dans la masse. Le pied, tout comme la cuve, sont en pierre calcaire noire polie dite pierre de Tournai, aussi appelée pierre bleue en raison de sa coloration gris-bleutée. La cuve a conservé son trou d'évacuation central et des traces du couvercle originel de part et d'autre de la cuve. [...] Ces fonts baptismaux appartiennent à tout un ensemble de fonts baptismaux en pierre de Tournai ou pierre bleue localisables dans le nord de l'Aisne et en Thiérache et qui peuvent être datables de la 2e moitié du 12e siècle ou du début du 13e siècle. Ils ont été exécutés pour la plupart localement et se rattachent aux ateliers de sculpture du Nord de la France, de Tournai et de la vallée Mosane. Le pied ne paraît pas être celui qui s'y trouvait originellement, le revers de la cuve portant la trace d'un pied de forme circulaire. La plupart des fonts baptismaux ont en effet gardé souvent un pied circulaire. Ceux de Martigny ont perdu leur couvercle originel, dont subsistent certains éléments du système d'attache, ils ont été remplacés par un couvercle en bois datant du 19e ou du 20e siècle. Les fonts baptismaux de Martigny ne comportent aucun décor à l'exception des 4 têtes fantastiques à forme humaine, masculine ou androgynes qui ont donné lieu à de nombreuses interprétations symboliques, dont la plus plausible reste l'hypothèse d'y voir la représentation des quatre Fleuves du Paradis." The font consists of two parts likely to be originally unrelated, a cylindrical basin with crude schematic human heads at 90-degree angles on the sides, and a roll moulding at the lower end, raised on a slender pedestal base, square with chamfered angles and slightly splaying towards the end, a total mismatch. The inner well of the basin is also round and has a groove at the top to fit a round font cove; there is evidence of old cover anchorings at opposite sides of the basin rim. [NB: cf. Index entry for Martigny No. 2 for a holy-water stoup of similar shape and date in this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.859522, 4.137576
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 51′ 34.28″ N, 4° 8′ 15.28″ E
UTM: 31U 581757 5523652

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern cover; upper rim of basin shows anchoring marks from old cover

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902