Nouvion-le-Vineux No. 1 / Noiron le Vineaux
Image copyright © GO69, 2011
CC-Zero
Results: 13 records
view of church exterior - tower - west side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nouvion-le-Vineux_(02)_Église_05.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nouvion-le-Vineux_(02)_Église_01.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by GO69 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nouvion-le-Vineux_(02)_Église_03.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - east view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phinou, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2012 by Phinou [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Nouvion-le-Vineux..jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2011
Image Source: tirage photographique no. 02W00405, in Mémoire [ref.: AP02W00405]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1994
Image Source: Oursel (1994: pl. 97]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: large leaves on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: Drawing by Robin Ollington, in Drake (2002: fig. 2)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
animal - mammal - lion - head - inverted - vegetation stemming from mouth
Scene Description: on two sides of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1994
Image Source: Oursel (1994: pl. 97] [detail]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
symbol - fruit - arum
Scene Description: on two sides of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1994
Image Source: Oursel (1994: pl. 97] [detail]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: on two sides of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1994
Image Source: Oursel (1994: pl. 97]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - architectural - column - 16
Scene Description: eight on each of two sides of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zodiaque, 1994
Image Source: Oursel (1994: pl. 97]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - foliage or spur - 4
Scene Description: one on each angle of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: Drawing by Robin Ollington, in Drake (2002: fig. 2)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
Image Source: Drawing by Robin Ollington, in Drake (2002: fig. 2)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03239NOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Laon cathedral and at Jeantes-en-Thiérache
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entrance, in the first bay of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: 11th-12thC church -- listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115849]
Church Address: 02860 Nouvion-le-Vienux, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Nouvion-le-Vineux is located about 9 km S of Laon, about 40 km NW of Reims
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin
Historical Region: Le Laonnois, Picardie
Font Notes:
Click to view
Mosan baptismal font: square basin mounted on a broad single column base with a large round lower base adorned with leaves at the corners which shape the square plinth. Two sides of the basin -opposite sides- are ornamented with a row of beautiful columns arranged in the manner of the more common blind arcade, the columns with capitals and bases; the other two sides have an upturned lion head in the centre of the face, at the bottom, from the mouth of which issue two stems, right and left, that turn into lovely palmettes with arum fruit; each of the sides has four of these palmettes arranged in square shapes. The underbowl is round and plain [it can be said that the astragale of the base column is actually the underbowl]. Described in Pudelko (1932). Corblet (1881-1882) mentions a Romanesque font in Nouvion, Aisne, which is probably this one. Eden (1909) gives this font [the name of which he spells "Noiron le Vineaux"!], and the one at Montdidier as being similar to the font at St. Mary Bourne (U.K.) The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) gives the fonts at the cathedral of Laon and at Thiérache as cognates. Described and illustrated in Oursel (1994). Listed and illustrated in Drake (2002). The BNF's 'Inventaire des dessins [...] Aisne' (1887), entry no. 728, lists two pencil drawings by E. Fleury of vessels in this church: one is of a baptismal font of blue stone, the other of a holy-water stoup. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM02000875]: "Pierre bleue de Tournai. Cuve rectangulaire portée par un fût monocylindrique reposant sur une base formée de deux tores [...] 1ère moitié 12e siècle".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 544215 5483461
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.502165, 3.610666
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 30′ 7.79″ N, 3° 36′ 38.4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Mosan stone)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 92 x 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM02000875]
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV D 123-124
- Bibliothèque nationale de France. Cabinet des estampes, Inventaire des dessins et estampes relatifs au département de l'Aisne, recueillis et légués à la Bibliothèque nationale par Édouard Fleury, Paris: Hachette, 1887, p. 42, entry # 728
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 63 and fn4
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 176 and fig. 2
- Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909, p. [29], 30
- N.S. 4, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, pp. 259; p. 259
- Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 229-230 and pl. 97
- Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932, pl. IX