Nouvion-le-Vineux No. 1 / Noiron le Vineaux

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animal - mammal - lion - head - inverted - vegetation stemming from mouth
design element - architectural - column - 16
design element - motifs - foliage
design element - motifs - foliage or spur - 4
design element - motifs - palmette
design element - motifs - roll moulding
symbol - fruit - arum
view of church exterior - east view
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church exterior - tower - west side - detail
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03239NOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 02860 Nouvion-le-Vienux, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entrance, in the first bay of the S aisle
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Laon cathedral and at Jeantes-en-Thiérache
Church Notes: 11th-12thC church -- listed and illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115849]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
49.502165,
3.610666
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 30′ 7.79″ N,
3° 36′ 38.4″ E
UTM: 31U 544215 5483461
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-
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
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002
Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909
N.S. 4, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, pp. 259; r["References"]
Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994
Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932