Mery-sur-Oise / Méry-sur-Oise

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04338MER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Denis de Méry-sur-Oise
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Notes: 13thC church; re-built 15th-16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00080125]: "A partir de 1485, reconstruction de l'église détruite par les guerres de Cent ans. Edifice d'architecture gothique annonçant la première Renaissance".
Church Address: 9bis Rue de l'Isle Adam, 95540 Méry-sur-Oise, France -- Tel.: +33 1 30 36 40 66
Site Location: Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D922, in the arrondissement d'Argenteuil, about 7 km E of Pontoise, in the NW suburbs of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Pontoise
Additional Comments: damaged font (on opposite sides of the rim where the original(?) metal staples of the old cover anchorings were)
Font Notes:
Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) simply as a 13th-century stone baptismal font. The font is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM95000433]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 13e siècle [...] Cuve quadrangulaire, aux arêtes vives, dont les quatre faces s'incurvent pour former un pied plus étroit décoré [...] H = 120 [...] Oeuvre mutilée [...] Deux profondes entailles latérales, dues à l'arrachement d'une ancienne fixation du couvercle originel. Traces de polychromie." Illustrated in Mérimée [ref.: AP95W01443], where it appears with a plain cover on it. Two photographs of this font taken 18 May 2013 by Pierre Poschadel can be found in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_Saint-Denis_(Méry-sur-Oise)?uselang=fr [accessed 26 April 2025]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 440829 5435087
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.0658, 2.18994
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 3′ 56.88″ N, 2° 11′ 23.78″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV D 109
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.