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view of font

the modern font located at the west end of the north aisle
Scene Description: the modern font located at the west end of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2013
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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view of church exterior - apse - south side - corbel

Font image
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,_chœur.JPG] [accessed 29 April 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2013
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 exterior - southwest view

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."
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 - southeast view

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."
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - transept - southeast view - detail

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2013
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - looking west

notice the modern font surrounded by standing figures at the far [west] end of the left [north aisle]
Scene Description: notice the modern font surrounded by standing figures at the far [west] end of the left [north aisle]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2013
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - looking east

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2013
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Vue intérieure au début du XXe siècle."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue intérieure au début du XXe siècle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD Old

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03656FOS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Etienne
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: present building started ca. 1130(?); expanded early 13thC [listed in Mérimée ref. PA00080058]
Church Address: Grande Rue, 95470 Fosses, France
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (where is the font reported here in Cloquet? [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 31U 462674 5438193
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.095452, 2.488698
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 5′ 44″ N, 2° 29′ 19″ E

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