Dommery
Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: notice the metal anchor ring atop the head on the left; it must have been used as anchoring also for an earlier, and perhaps more suitable, font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of base
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131224030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing two of the four heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: another of the human heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: showing the later round fortified tower at the northeast end of the building
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église_Sainte-Madeleine,_extérieur_(1).JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Markus3 (Marc Roussel), 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 October 2007 by Markus3 (Marc Roussel) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_monument-aux-morts_et_%C3%A9glise_fortifi%C3%A9e.jpg] [accessed 6 January 2012]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: notice the unmatched cover; also the underbowl, stem and lower base, all modern replacements
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2012
Image Source: B&W photograph [ref.: AP08W00267] in Mémoire [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr?] [accessed 6 January 2012]
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view of font cover
![the battered metal cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131224031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the battered metal cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dommery_(Ardennes)_église,_fonts_baptismaux_PM08000168_classé.JPG] [accessed 24 December 2013]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09496DOM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Sainte-Madeleine
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located near Charleville-Mezières, about 80 km NE of Reims
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: other such fonts in this area
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000168] as a baptismal font of the 12th century made of "pierre bleue de Givet". The Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes [http://catholique-reims.cef.fr] [accessed May 2000] reports a Romanesque baptismal font in this church. The baptismal font consists of a round basin with four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles; the stone that now forms the underbowl, the stem and the lower base are all modern replacements. The surface of the font appears to be painted, masking thus the blueish colour of the limestone. The metal cover is octagonal, in the shape of a collapsed dome, and totally unmatched to the font; was it made for another font?
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.687883, 4.445864
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 41′ 16.38″ N, 4° 26′ 45.11″ E
UTM: 31U 604288 5504933
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round(with heads) - mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (includes rim): 93 cm* / 112 cm* [including the heads]
Basin Total Height: 31.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM08000168]]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]