Fremecourt / Frémécourt

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Frémécourt (95), église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_fonts_baptismaux_2.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Frémécourt (95), église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_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 AP05L00037] of a March 1925 B&W photograph [Négatif noir et blanc ; Support verre ; Gélatino-bromure 05L00037] by the Commission des Antiquités de Seine-et-Oise [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP05L00037] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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animal - reptile - saurian

Scene Description: a band made of several snakes and saurians, some of them eating fruits
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: in a very narrow band
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: another narrow band below the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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design element - motifs - ring

Scene Description: several of them carved on the sides, imitating metal rings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_fonts_baptismaux_3.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Frémécourt (95), église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Nef, vue vers l'ouest."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Frémécourt (95), église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Nef, vue vers l'est."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 20 September 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frémécourt_(95),_église_Notre-Dame_de_l'Assomption,_nef,_vue_vers_l'est_2.JPG] [accessed 23 May 2022]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03950FRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de Frémécourt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080060]: "12e siècle ; 16e siècle ; 17e siècle"
Church Address: 18 rue de Cléry, 95830 Frémécourt, France
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located S of the D915, about 10 km SW of Pontoise
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Historical Region: le Vexin français
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Listed [Palissy ref.: PM95000262] and illustrated [Mémoire ref.: AP05L00037]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Pierre [...] 14e siècle". Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval [oblong, really] mounted font of the 15th century. The sides of the basin have an upper band with snakes and saurians feeding on fruits; below it a double band of trefoil motifs, with carved rings at a few spots; the underbowl has foliage motif; the base is the same shape as the basin, but smaller. The font cover is hinged in its middle and provides access to both wells of the basin.

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.119780, 2.001550
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 7' 11.2" N, 2° 0' 5.6" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: rectangular, mounted [oblong]
Basin Interior Shape: rectnagular [oblong] [partitioned]
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular [oblong]
Drainage Notes: partitioned inner well

LID INFORMATION

Notes: flat and oblong; hinged in its middle; appears modern

REFERENCES

  • Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992, vol. 2, p. 650