Montsuzain

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human figure - female? - head - wearing veil - 4

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human figure - head - 4

Image Source: digital image 24 January 2017 of a B&W photograph [no. de tirage 10W00942], in Mémoire [ref.: AP10W00942] [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM10001298] [accessed 19 September 2021]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the internal division of the basin is obviously a later modification

Image Source: digital image 26 September 2008 of a photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP10W00942] [www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM10001298] [accessed 19 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - northeast end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsuzain, l'église, le chevet"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montsuzain_-_Eglise_de_la_Conversion-de-Saint-Paul_(5).jpg] [accessed 19 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsuzain, l'église vue du Nord-Ouest"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montsuzain_-_Eglise_de_la_Conversion-de-Saint-Paul_(1).jpg] [accessed 19 September 2021]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Montsuzain, l'église vue du portail Ouest"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2016 by Antoine Garnier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montsuzain_-_Eglise_de_la_Conversion-de-Saint-Paul_(3).jpg] [accessed 19 September 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09583MON

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de la Conversion-de-Saint-Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Paul

Church Location: 9 rue de l'Eglise / rue du Stade, 10150 Montsuzain, France

Country Name: France

Location: Aube, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located off the D8, between the A26-E17 and the N77, about 15 km N of Troyes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Troyes

Historical Region: Champagne-Ardenne

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font

Church Notes: church chiefly 16thC but has 12thC remains --

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Listed in Enlart as a 13th-century baptismal font: 'Architecture religieuse 2 - Chapitre X. Accesoires de l’Architecture Religieuse. Paragraphe XI Fonts Baptismaux, page 892" : Fonts à pied unique, comme reproduction d'un type d'autel primitif,...., postérieurs à l'époque romane." Described in Collins (1981: 107) as a Romanesque baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin decorated with four human heads, perhaps female, wearing short veils, and a later base made of brick and masonry [NB: this appears to match Drake's decription of the base at Chaumesnil (?) -- cf. Index entry for Chaumesnil]. Listed in Drake (2002: 176) as a Mosan font of the "chess-piece" group. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM10001298]; illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP10W00942] as a carved stone baptismal font of the 13th century: "Taille de pierre, sculpture [...] Calcaire. [...] Cuve hémisphérique ; quatre têtes. [...] H = 32 ; d = 88 [...] 13e siècle [...] Très usé." [NB: the inner basin partition must be a later alteration, as such division do not appear until the late-Gothic period on French fonts]. In a communication to BSI (e-mail of 7 July 2021) Pol Herman copied an e-mail addressed to fonts specialist Jean-Claude Ghislain regarding this font, commenting on Drake's use of the term "chess-pieces" [cf. supra] and classing it as "Mosan" font, a categorisation Pol Herman disagrees with: "[Drake] mentionne les fonts baptismaux "mosans" de Montsuzain sous cette catégorie. Moi-même, voyant leur apparence, je ne pense pas qu'ils sont mosans. Sur ma carte, je les ai mis provisoirement dans ma catégorie "fonts français cylindriques à 4 têtes, non-mosans"."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.444434, 4.132352

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 26′ 39.96″ N, 4° 7′ 56.47″ E

UTM: 31U 583740 5366318

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone (and partly brick for the base?), limestone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [NB: the interior of the basin has been altered and divided into two parts; presumably the drain is still there]

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm*

Basin Total Height: 32 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM10001298]

REFERENCES

Collin, Hubert, Champagne romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1981

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Enlart, Camille, 8 (1890), Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 1890, pp. 46-73; r["References"]