Magny-Cours No. 1

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

Scene Description: on the base of the main font and on the linking portion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - cross - Latin - on a step - two steps

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the smaller base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - shield - chalice - Christ monogram

Scene Description: on the third side of the smaller base

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

symbol - shield - fleur-de-lis - 3

Scene Description: on another of the smaller base sides

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: from the late-Romanesque (?) church

Image Source: digital image in Visiter les Chapelles de la Nièvre [www.photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/58/Arrondissement de Nevers/Canton de Imphy/magny.htm] [accessed 15 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image 5 January 2011 by Mmirault [www.gennievre.net/wiki/index.php/Fichier:Eglise-Magny_Cours.jpg] [accessed 15 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital image in Visiter les Chapelles de la Nièvre [www.photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/58/Arrondissement de Nevers/Canton de Imphy/magny.htm] [accessed 15 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital image in Visiter les Chapelles de la Nièvre [www.photos-eglises.fr/Bourgogne/58/Arrondissement de Nevers/Canton de Imphy/magny.htm] [accessed 15 May 2017]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice that the secondary basin is ill-fitted to the rest and appears to be a repair or replacement -- the statue in the foreground is not part of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 July 2001 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 03545MAG

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Celse-et-Saint-Nazaire de Magny

Church Patron Saints: St. Celsus [aka Cellach Mac Aodh] & St. Nazarius

Church Location: place de l'Église, 58470 Magny-Cours, France

Country Name: France

Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Directions to Site: Located off the N7, between Challuy (N) and Saint-Parize-le-Châtel (S), about 15 km S of Nevers [the invidual communes of Magny and Cours merged after (?) the Revolution]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers

Historical Region: Bourgogne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the stairs leading to the bell tower, on the N side of the W door

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at Sermoise-sur-Loire and other such fonts in the area

Church Notes: Romanesque church here, perhaps as early as 11thC;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed by Corblet (1881-1882, v. 2, p. 132) simply as a 16th-century font. On-site notes: the double-font appears to be monolithic, although the secondary basin appears to have been attached to the other, probably a replacement after breakage; it is a font of two volumes: the main basin is large and octagonal, whereas the secundary basin is smaller and square; besides a few mouldings on the main font and its base, the ornamentation appears chirfly on the three faces of the secondary base and consists of a Latin cross on two steps on the left side, a shield charged with three fleur-de-lis on the front side, and a shield charged with a chalice and the letters "I" and "D" [Iesus Domini?] on the right side. The font is now [July 2001] out of use, covered in dust and cobwebs, in a space beneath the tower stairs, together with other discarded objects.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 511474 5192429

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: octagonal (main basin) - (square (2nd basin)

Basin Interior Shape: round (main basin) - square (2nd basin)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (main basin) - square (2nd basin)

Drainage Notes: the drain hole is on the side of the smaller basin, towards the junction with the larger basin -- no lining

Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken -- cf. Index entry for measurements of a similar font at Sermoise-sur-Loire]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin?

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on one of the shields of the base

Inscription Text: "I - D"

Inscription Source: On-site [cf. ImagesArea]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood?,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain; it covers only the larger basin

REFERENCES

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