Fecamp No. 1 / Fécamp / Fecamps
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Results: 10 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book
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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - holding book - unidenitfied
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B04: symbol - tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: or foliage; in some of the arches
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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: just below the rim
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BS01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the capital-like upper volume of the base
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LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: up and down the stem of the base
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09377FEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Cognate Fonts: Similar -in general terms- to the lead fonts of Saint-Évroult-de-Montfort and Brookland
Museum: Palais Bénédictine
Church / Chapel Name: La Bénédictine [castle & museum]
Font Location in Church: Reported in this location ca. 2003
Church Notes: La Bénédictine is a neo-Gothic and neo-Renaissance masterpiece, the Palais Bénédictine is home to the distillery of the famous liqueur
Church Address: 76400 Fécamp, France -- Tel.: +33 2 35 10 26 00
Site Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Fécamp is located off the D940, on the NW Atlantic coast, about 45 kms NE of Le Havre
Font Notes:
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Cylindrical baptismal font of the 13th century made of lead. The basin -which is the only part made of lead- is made of welded sides with the bottom and inner division also welded to them. The upper rim is plain and flat, but has below it a thin rope moulding all around; the sides are decorated with an arcade of trefoil arches in which are housed human figures or floral motifs [perhaps Tree of Life symbols?]; each figure holds a book but one of them carries a large key as well, so it represents St. Peter, and the others may well represent other Apostles; the spandrels of the arcade have floral motifs that match in style those in some of the arches. The lower rim has a flat moulding. The basin is raised on a moulded piece that fits its bottom and then directly on a leaf capital that rests on a plain stem with a thin roll moulding at eirther end and a splayed lower base the upper part of which is circular whereas the lower, or plinth, is polygonal [hexagonal?]. Like the lead font at Saint-Évroult-de-Montfort, in Orne [cf. Index entry], the inner basin of this one is also divided into two compartments by a vertical plate welded to the inside.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of Lincoln, England, for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 310426 5515150
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.7589, 0.367778
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 45′ 32.04″ N, 0° 22′ 4″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead [basin only]
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round