Jeantes / Janta Curtis / Jantha / Jeante-la-ville / Jeantes-en-Thierache / Jeantes-en-Thiérache
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view of font - side 3
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view of font - side 2
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view of font and cover - side 1
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing each other - at water source - 2
![[cf. Font notes for comments on the heads of these lions]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1040909015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes for comments on the heads of these lions]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 6
Scene Description: with motifs inside the arches
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: similar to the motifs on the bases of the missing colonnettes
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design element - motifs - palmette - 7
Scene Description: one in each spandrel of the arcade on side 2 of the basin
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design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle - 3
Scene Description: in arches 4, 5 and 6, counting from the left
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human figure - head - 3
Scene Description: in arches 1, 2 and 3 of the arcade, counting from the left
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design element - motifs - fruit - grapes or arum?
Scene Description: in the tendril or garland of side 1
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design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: several, in the tendril or garland of side 1
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design element - motifs - tendril
Scene Description: with grapes and palmettes on side 1
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view of basin's top
Scene Description: with modern font cover
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Jeantes.jpg] [accessed 12 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: thick round moulding forming the central part of the lower base
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: at the angles of the lower base, similar to the motif on the capitals of the missing colonnettes on the underbowl -
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view of base
Scene Description: note the broken side and the missing colonnettes
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.S. Drake, 2002
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04344JEA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at the cathedral of Laon and the one at Nouvion-le-Vineux; also the font at Bancigny and the one at St-Just-en-Chaussée
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115702]
Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, 02140 Jeantes, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the canton of Aubenton, vecinity of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin
Historical Region: Pays des Trois Rivières - La Thiérache - Picardie
Additional Comments: damaged font / altered font (the font is in a deplorable condition / it lacks the four outer colonnettes of the base)
Font Notes:
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Described in Corblet (1881-1882) as a Romanesque font ornamented with human, animal and foliage motifs on the sides of the basin. Described in an entry by G. Dumas in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) as a 12th century baptismal font made of the blue Tournai stone: a square basin mounted on a single broad cylindrical base; the basin sides are ornamented with palmettes, arum (?) fruit and colonnettes. This same source gives the fonts at the cathedral of Laon and at Nouvion-le-Vineux as cognates. Described and illustrated in Drake (2002): "Jeantes [...] echoes the Tournai font of St Jut-en-Chaussée with its three masks and three flowers in discs occupying the six arches of the arcade". Drake (ibid.), in describing one of the sides of this font refers to a "device well known from Romanesque capitals and from the East Jutland lion fonts, where two beasts face inwards and share a single head [...] for example at [...] Jeantes", but, the lion on the right of the two on the Jeantes font side, like the lion on the left of the two on the Bancigny font [cf. Index entry], is looking at the other lion, not sharing its head. The problem with the lion at Jeantes is that it is so badly carved that it has a tiny ugly head that touches the bigger head of the lion on the left and can be seen as only the neck. If one looks closely at both compositions, however, it appears more clearly as a head on its own. Drake (ibid.) groups it in his Mosan-1b class of square bowl on multisupport fonts. A third side is decorated with a palmette and grape-bunch garland or tendril, and has an upside-down human head in the lower-centre area [no information available on the fourth side]. The upper surface of the basin appears plain around the round well, though it is difficult to judge whether or not it had any decoration at all due to the poor state of the object; there is a wooden cover on the font but it is modern. The font is now [2004] in a deplorable shape: the basin is broken and poorly repaired in several areas; the part of the underbowl that forms the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base is badly damaged and parts of it are missing, as are the four outer colonnettes of the base; the plain central shaft remains; the lower base, consisting of the round-to-square shape common in this type of font, is badly damaged too and one of the corners is missing. The font is inventoried in Palissy [ref.: IM02001609.html] with date in the second half of the 12th century. The iron font cover is modern, by Suasso de Lima de Prado Hans [cf. Palissy ref.: IM02001610].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to E.J. Erpelinck for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 575974 5517423
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.804203, 4.054846
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 48′ 15.13″ N, 4° 3′ 17.45″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 85 x 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM02000559]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 20th-century (mid?)
Material: metal, iron
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern flat iron cover decorated with fish and water motfs
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV D 124
- Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882, vol. 2: p. 120-121
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 41, 42, 44, 176 and pl. 83