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Scene Description: a/p description and illustration in Enlart (1902)
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 400)
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view of stoup
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Enlart (1902: fig. 400)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03846JEA
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: In the SE area of the Forêt de Compiègne, about 10 kms SE of Compiègne itself
Font Location in Church: Wall-mounted
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Listed in Enlart (1902, fig. 400 on p. 786 and p. 787 footnote 3) as an octagonal basin, ca. 1200, with lower sides cut to a saw-tooth shape and attached to the wall of the church. Described in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) as a small holy-water stoup dated to the time of the construction of the church [?] and carved into the sailient of one of the walls; the basin is hexagonal outside with a round well; the lower part of the hexagon has its angles chamfered at 45-degrees.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: octagonal (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
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