Mesnil-les-Hurlus / Le Mesnil-lès-Hurlus / Le Mesnil-lez-Hurlus / Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: Wearing a covering resembling a 'cappa magna'

view of church exterior

Scene Description: only the ruins remained by 1915 after the destruction of the church in Worl War I

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Image Source: digital image by yoschmitt in old postcard [date unknown] digital image in http://cards.geneanet.org/pics/carte/normal/y/yoschmitt56.jpg]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03532MES
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand Est
Directions to Site: This village was destroyed in Worl War I; its territory was merged with the next village's into 'Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus'
Century and Period: 12th century?, Romanesque
Described in Corblet (1881-1882) as a cylindical basin with heads "coiffées d'une spèce de camail [=cappa magna]" at 90-degree angles. This may be the same font now listed in Palissy databe under Minaucourt-le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus as a stone font of the 12th century [PM51001523][NB: the village of Le-Mesnil-lès-Hurlus was destroyed in WWI; only ruins of the 13th-century churchremain, but we have no information on the font itself]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 625067 5447895

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 95.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *Corblet gives the circumference as 3 m. (Corblet, 1881-1882, v. 2, p. 131)

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882