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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: a/p Viollet-le-Duc's illustration
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: 537)
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design element - architectural - column - engaged column - 4
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: 537)
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 6 November 2014 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vers-sur-Selle_(Somme)_(3).JPG] [accessed 22 October 2021]
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view of font
Scene Description: note the wooden cover with the cross-bar lock in place
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Image Source: digital image from an illustration in Viollet-le-duc (1875, v. 5: 537)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cross-bar has been removed in this instance, and is disengaged at the back
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph 6 November 2014 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vers-sur-Selle_(Somme)_(3).JPG] [accessed 22 October 2021]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux (Cl. MH), bas-côté nord."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Hauts-de-France - Inventaire général, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph [IVR22_20078012744NUCA] by Isabelle Barbedor, in the Région Hauts-de-France - Inventaire général [https://inventaire.hautsdefrance.fr] [accessed 22 October 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03653VER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Rémy-et-Saint-Hildevert
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy] & St. Hildevert
Church Location: rue de l'église, 80480 Vers-sur-Selle, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D8, S of the A16-A29 crossroads, 6-7 km SW of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Sains-en-Amiénois / Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font in the crypt of Chartres cathedral is somewhat similar
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are greatful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this site and font
Church Notes: orignal church documented ca. 1121 as as a merge of two earlier churches dedicated 1)St Remi and 2)St Hildevert; again in 1238; damaged 1328; burned down 1426; burned again 1472; present church chiefly late-15th with modifications of the 17thC
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". Described by Cloquet (1890, p. 416), with reference to the illustration in Viollet-le-Duc, as "absolument du type tournaisien". However, the illustration in Viollet-le-Duc, (Dictionnaire..., t. 5, 1875, p. 537, ill. 3) is not "tournaisien" at all, but rather like the font in the crypt of the cathedral of Chartres, that is, with the corner shafts connecting right at the outer corners of the basin, a characteristic not found in any of the Tournai fonts; V-le-Duc dates the Ver font to the 13th century. [NB: Viollet-le-Duc does show one font which matches Cloquet's description, the font at the parish church of St-Pierre of Montdidier, illustrated on the previous page, i.e., v. 5, p. 536, fig. 2].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.842200, 2.232200
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 50' 31.9" N, 2° 13' 55.9" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 416
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927
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
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Paris: Morel & Cie, 1854-1868