Nesles-la-Vallee / Nesles-la-Vallée

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: a band of, all around
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: somewhat different from the ones above
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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - palmette - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on a moulding of the lower base [or, are they claws?]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: the basin and the upper half of the stem appear to be all part of the same block
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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nesles-la-Vallée (95), église Saint-Symphorien, vue générale intérieure"
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nesles-la-Vallée (95), église Saint-Symphorien, nef, vue wers l'ouest"
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view of church interior - south aisle - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nesles-la-Vallée (95), église Saint-Symphorien, bas-côté sud, vue vers l'ouest" -- showing the the baptismal font at the far end
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux : cuve ovale soulignée par deux frises à décor de feuilles de vigne stylisées"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2022
Image Source: digital image Mémoire [ref.: AP05L00335] of a 23 October 2023 photograph [Négatif noir et blanc ; Support verre ; Gélatino-bromure 05L00335] by the Commission des Antiquités de Seine-et-Oise [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP05L00335] [accessed 28 May 2022]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nesles-la-Valle (95), église Saint-Symphorien, bas-côté sud, fonts baptismaux"
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INFORMATION

FontID: 03954NES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Symphorien
Church Patron Saints: St. Symphorian [Symphorien d'Autun] [† ca. 200]
Church Location: 5 bd Pasteur, 95690 Nesles-la-Vallée, France -- Tel,: +33 9 51 01 54 68
Country Name: France
Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Just NW of l'Isle-Adam, NE of Pontoise, in the Parc naturel régional du Vexin français
Historical Region: Le Vexin français
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Similar to the font at Jouy-le-Comte (Val-d'Oise)
Church Notes: bell tower 1130-1140; church re-built ca. 11851200; restored late-19thC
Font Notes:
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM95000471]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Fonts baptismaux : cuve ovale soulignée par deux frises à décor de feuilles de vigne stylisées [...] Socle carré aux angles abattus. Base à griffes. Fût cylindrique. Vasque hémisphérique reliée au fût par une moulure et une corbeille de feuillage. A la partie supérieure, ceinture de feuillages (chêne ou érable) et de fleurettes [...] 13e siècle [...] H = 95 ; d = 85 (Dimensions du socle : h = 14, la = 55) ; Dimensions de la vasque : h = 42, d = 85. Dimension du fût : h = 42". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP05L00335]. Listed and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes du Val-d'Oise (1999) as an oval mounted font of the 13th century. The basin is ornamented with a band of small stylised vine leaves at the upper part [as identified in the source]; the underbowl has a similar band with larger leaves [idem]. The lower base is rectangular and plain. The flat wooden lid is plain and appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.129060, 2.169770
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 7' 44.6" N, 2° 10' 11.2" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: oval (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM95000471 [cf. FontNotes for other measurements]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

Tewkesbury Abbey (a Pitkin guide), Andover, Hants.: Pitkin Pictorials, 1992