Nerlandes
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 8 arches - round arches
Scene Description: Two on each face of the square basin
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 125)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 4
Scene Description: Cut off in the form of round arches to form the base
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 125)
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Scene Description: the text and image in Corblet
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 125)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03509NER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise
Country Name: France
Location: Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: [NB: unable to locate the place 'Nerlandes' anywhere in France -- it should be Merlande [cf. BSI entry]]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Corblet's long entry in 'Des lieux de bapteme', in the Revue de l'art chrétien (1878) and (1881-1882): the font, square inside and out, appears to be of one piece; the lower part has been carved off at the sides leaving an arch gap; two sides of the basin show pairs of arches or windows.
The entry for the church at 'Merlande' in Sébastien Colpin [https://www.photosdesebastiencolpin.fr/2025/03/le-prieure-de-merlande-un-magnifique-patrimoine-religieux-au-coeur-de-la-foret.html] [accessed 6 April 2025] notes: "La cuve baptismale placée à l’entrée est romane." [NB: one of Colpin's photographs of the interior of the church shows two fonts: an octagonal pedestal font standing at the west end of the centre aisle by the west entranceway; the other, a square tub stands in the northwest corner; this font appears to match the description and illustration that Corblet (1881-1882) locates in 'Nerlandes', Dordogne -- cf. BSI entry for Merlande]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882