Marteville, in Attilly / Martis Villa
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03491MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D33, 10 km W of Saint-Quentin, 57 km NW of Laon -- it is now a hamlet of Attilly
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin [formerly in the Diocèse de Noyon]
Historical Region: Le Vermandois
Font Notes:
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Malézieux (1873), in an article about the fonts at Berthenicourt and Saint-Germain (nr. Guise) in Aisne, includes a number of fonts of similar date and design at "Vermand, La-Neuvelle-la-Corbie, Vendeuil, Saint-Simon, Marle, Montdidier, Ver", and fragments in the churches of "Etreillers, Ribemont, Fonsomme, Gauchy, Marteville". Listed in Corblet (1881-1882) simply as being of the Romanesque period.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 512176 5522801
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2, p. 121
- Malézieux, J., "Cuves baptismales de Berthenicourt et de St-Germain", 1er année (1873), Le Vermandois: revue d'histoire locale, beaux-arts et littérature, pp. 81-83; p. 81-83