Chalons-sur-Marne No. 3 / Châlons-sur-Marne / Chalons-en-Champagne
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 398)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 398)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03826CHA
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Cathedrale Saint-Etienne, Chalons-en-Champagne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: The cathedral has a beautiful Tournai font of the "Ardennes" type.
Church Address: Pl. Saint-Etienne, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne, France
Site Location: Marne, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Chalons-sur-Marne or, Chalons-en-Champagne, as it is better known today, lies about 45 kms. SE of Reims on the A4 or the N44, on the banks of the Marne river.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Châlons
Additional Comments: recycled stoup?: it looks very much like a former capital, although it could have been designed originally as a stoup to judge by the neat grouping which makes with the pedestal and its base.
Font Notes:
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The holy-water stoup at the cathedral of Châlons-en-Champagne [-sur-Marne] illustrated in Enlart (1902, p. 784 fig. 398 and caption) and dated by him to the mid-12th century, looks very much like a capital, covered in profuse foliage motif ornamentation and mounted on a plain cylindrical pedestal with a square base.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 599399 5423373
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.955278, 4.357778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 57′ 19″ N, 4° 21′ 28″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 784 fig. 398 and caption