Breancon No. 2 / Bréançon

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, bas-côté sud, fonts baptismaux" [NB: the 16thC basin on a modern replacement base]
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_1.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2022
Image Source: digital image [Mémoire APMH049159] of an undated [pre-1897] B&W photograph [Négatif MH0049159] by Félix Martin-Sabon [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH049159] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, bas-côté sud, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: patterned leaves?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: beneath the rim
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_2.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arch-heads - 30

Scene Description: five per side on the hexagonal basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_2.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of basin and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, bas-côté sud, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_fonts_baptismaux_2.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, nef, vue vers l'est"
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, bas-côté sud, vue_vers_l'ouest"
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_vue_vers_l'ouest_6.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bréançon (95), église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien, bas-côté sud, vue_vers_l'ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 9 July 2015 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bréançon_(95),_église_Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien,_bas-côté_sud,_vue_vers_l'ouest_5.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03949BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century[basin only] [composite font], Renaissance [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Crépin-et-Saint-Crépinien
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Crispin and St. Crispinian [aka Crépin et Crépinien]
Church Notes: The church is mostly 13th and 16th century but the stoup and a capital are dated to the 12th century, the date of the original consecration (Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise, 1999, v. 2, p. 627) -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080009]
Church Address: 9 rue du Presbytère, 95640 Bréançon, France
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D64 [aka rue del'Eglise], 3 km E of Marines, 10-12 km NW of Pontoise
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
Listed [Palissy PM95000090] and illustrated [Mémoire APMH049159]: "Font baptismaux [...] Cuve de forme hexagonale ornée d'arcatures, surmontée d'une frise de feuillage, portée par un pied hexagonal avec large boudin sur les arêtes [...] 1er quart 16e siècle [cuve] [...] Pied moderne qui s'écarte sous le poids de la cuve. Présence de salpêtre à la jonction de la cuve et du pied." Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as a hexagonal mounted font of the 16th century. The basin sides are ornamented with trilobe arches under a band of foliage motif. The pedestal of the modern base has vertical mouldings. The inside of the basin is partitioned in two. The present cover is modern, hexagonal, plain and flat; there are two metal staples left at the rim of the basin from the old cover.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 428668 5443798
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.14286, 2.02195
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 8′ 34.3″ N, 2° 1′ 19.02″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal [partinioned]
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Drainage Notes: partitioned basin interior
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999, v. 2, p. 628)

REFERENCES

  • Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 2, p. 628