Fosses / Fossae / Fossæ
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human figure - head - 4
view of church exterior - apse - south side - corbel
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_chœur.JPG] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Étienne de Fosses, dont le chœur et la partie centrale de la nef, de style romane, datent du XIIe siècle. L'on remarquera le rapport inhabituel des proportions entre la tour et la nef, et le transept à toits plats."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_chevet_2.JPG]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "L'église Saint-Étienne de Fosses (95), vue depuis le sud-ouest. Le bas-côté sud a été construit dans le style de la première Renaissance."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2011 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne_depuis_l'ouest.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2013 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_St-Étienne,_portail_occidental.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue intérieure au début du XXe siècle."
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Image Source: digital image of an early-20thC(?) postcard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_St-Étienne,_vue_intérieure_au_début_du_XXe_siècle.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_nef,_vue_vers_l'est_3.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west
![notice the modern font surrounded by standing figures at the far [west] end of the left [north aisle]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1190502020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice the modern font surrounded by standing figures at the far [west] end of the left [north aisle]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_nef,_vue_vers_l'ouest_2.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church interior - transept - southeast view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 September 2013 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_croisée,_chapiteaux_de_la_pile_SE_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font located at the west end of the north aisle
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2013 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fosses_(95),_église_Saint-Étienne,_bas-côté_nord,_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03656FOS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Grande Rue, 95470 Fosses, France
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Fosses is located off the D922, in the N banlieu of Paris, about 10 kms NW of Charles de Gaulle airport, 30 km NE of central Paris
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church Notes: present building started ca. 1130(?); expanded early 13thC [listed in Mérimée ref. PA00080058]
Font Notes:
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Listed by Cloquet (1890) simply as a baptismal font with four heads at the corners of the basin. The present font is modern, of an oval design. [NB: we have no information on the present wereabouts of the old font reported in Cloquet [cf. supra].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.095452, 2.488698
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 5′ 44″ N, 2° 29′ 19″ E
UTM: 31U 462674 5438193
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)?
Basin Interior Shape: round?
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. 418