Plaines Saint Lange / Plaines-Saint-Lange / Plaines-St-Lange / Plaignes-Saint-Lange
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - motifs - tendril
Scene Description: several
B02: design element - motifs - palmette
Scene Description: several?
B03: design element - motifs - foliage
INFORMATION
FontID: 09584PLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale
Country Name: France
Location: Aube, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located on the N71, 2 km N of Mussy-s-Seine, about 50 km SE of Troyes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
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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 ther 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"]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: capital font
Basin Exterior Shape: square (at the top)
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