Plaines Saint Lange / Plaines-Saint-Lange / Plaines-St-Lange

Results: 4 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 09584PLA
Object Type: Other
Object Details: capital
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Croix à Plaines-Saint-Lange / Eglise de l'Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix de Plaines-Saint-Lange
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): Holy Cross
Previous Font Location(s): originally from the Prieuré de la Gloire-Dieu
Church Address: Rue de l'Église, 10250 Plaines-Saint-Lange, France
Site Location: Aube, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the N71, 2 km N of Mussy-s-Seine, about 50 km SE of Troyes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Troyes
Additional Comments: re-purposed / re-cycled capital (now a font)
Font Notes:
Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM10001502]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire : taillé [...] 13e siècle [...] H = 72 ; la = 73,5 [...] L'objet est en réalité un ancien chapiteau [...] Lieu de provenance : Champagne-Ardenne, 10, Plaines-saint-Langes (?), ancien prieuré de la Gloire-Dieu." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA010031014638 and AP10W03293]. Described in Collins (1981: 107) as a Romanesque baptismal font in the form of large capital, starting at the bottom with a cylindrical shape that widens and becomes square at the top; the decoration includes tendrils, roundels, palmettes and other ornamental motifs. Described in Drake (2002: 68) as a capital font: "each corner of the square table at the top is supported on an unusual form of volute, formed of feathery leaves in plain frames extending the full height of the block; similar leaves the central space between the volutes but do not reach the top." [NB: Drake (ibid.) has name of place as "Plaignes-Saint-Lange"]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 610209 5316433
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.9917, 4.4772
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 59′ 30.12″ N, 4° 28′ 37.92″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted -- capital font
Basin Interior Shape: square
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 72 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 73,5 x 73.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf.FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plian

REFERENCES

  • Collin, Hubert, Champagne romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1981, p. 107
  • Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 68
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
  • France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.