Fecamp No. 1 / Fécamp / Fecamps

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Results: 10 records

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - holding book - unidenitfied

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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B04: symbol - tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: or foliage; in some of the arches

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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BBU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: just below the rim

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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BS01: design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the capital-like upper volume of the base

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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LB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: up and down the stem of the base

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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Image Source: Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09377FEC

Church/Chapel: La Bénédictine [castle & museum]

Country Name: France

Location: Seine-Maritime, Normandie

Directions to Site: Fécamp is located on the NW Atlantic coast, about 45 kms NE of Le Havre

Font Location in Church: Reported in this location ca. 2003

Century and Period: 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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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 [We are grateful to Peter Fairweather, of Lincoln, England, for his photographs of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead [basin only]

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round