Moulins-Engilbert
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design element - motifs - point-and-base
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2023 by Go69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moulins-Engilbert_(58)_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Intérieur_-_05.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 April 2025]
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design element - motifs - tracery - quatrefoil - variant
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2023 by Go69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moulins-Engilbert_(58)_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Intérieur_-_05.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 April 2025]
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: on some sides it shows covered in foliage, on other just the naved stalks braided
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 2022 by Catherine Chevochot [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA058_20255800040] [accessed 7 April 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: " Intérieur de l'église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Moulins-Engilbert (58). Fonts-baptismaux."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 24 June 2023 by Go69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moulins-Engilbert_(58)_Église_Saint-Jean-Baptiste_-_Intérieur_-_05.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 April 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03546MOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Moulins-Englibert
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 2 Rue Salonyer, 58290 Moulins-Engilbert, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Directions to Site: Located off the confluence of the D18, D37 and D985, 16 km SW of Château-Chinon, about 55 km E of Nevers
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nevers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the first chapel of the north side
Date: 1511?
Century and Period: 16th century(early),
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00001767]: "Milieu 14e siècle (détruit) ; 16e siècle ; 1er quart 20e siècle"
Octagonal mounted font dated 1511 on an inscription at the top; the basin is octagonal with a round moulding as upper rim, below which it has a band of deep-relief foliage motif; the sides of the basin, though they can probably be said to be part of the underbowl, are covered in a variant of Ogee quatrefoil motif, with slanted sides, each panel framed in round moulding; the base is also an octagonal block, the upper volume slightly narrower than the lower one, with a large point-and-base motif (a/p Le patrimoine des communes de Nièvre, 1999, v. 2, p. 663). This font is listed in Corblet (1881-1882) simply as having the date 1511. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM58000543]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Plan (hexagonal) [...] Calcaire [...] Ornementation (ornement à forme végétale, ornement à forme architecturale) [...] H = 113 ; d = 89 ; pr = 23 (d. de la cuve) [...] 1er quart 16e siècle [...] Couvercle refait [...] Plusieurs auteurs, à propos des fonts baptismaux, ont mentionne la date de 1511 ; celle-ci n'est plus visible ; peut-être est-elle masquée par le couvercle en bois rapporté ?" [additional references in Palissy: PM58000323, IM58000610]. Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA058_20255800040, AP58W00749, APMH00022232]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
46.98723,
3.81075
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
46° 59′ 14.03″ N,
3° 48′ 38.7″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*
Basin Depth: 23 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: upper rim surface [now hidden?]
Inscription Text: "1511"
Inscription Source: Le patrimoine des communes de Nièvre, 1999, v. 2, p. 663) and Corblet (1881-1882)
LID INFORMATION
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal, flat and plain [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Le Patrimoine des communes de la Nièvre, Charenton-le-Pont: FLOHIC, 1999
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-04-07 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
