Bancigny / Bancegnies
Image copyright © E.J. Erpelinck, 2004
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animal - mammal - lion - gardant - 2 - facing each other - fighting
Scene Description: the lion on the left looks at the lion on the right; the latter faces the viewer (the lion on the right could be described as being in a 'passant regardant' posture
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 5
Scene Description: four of the arches contain other motifs; the central arch is now blank but may have contained a motif earlier
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: in arch 4, counting from the left
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes, at underbowl level
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design element - motifs - foliage?
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the upper rim surface
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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
Scene Description: on the bases of the outer colonnettes of the base
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: round mouldings forming the bases of the columns of the base: a large one for the central shaft, and four smaller ones for the outer colonnettes
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design element - motifs - palmette - in a circle - with grapes
Scene Description: on side 1 of the basin
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human figure - male - head - bearded - 3
Scene Description: in arches 1, 2 and 5, counting from the left
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patrick Clenet, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Patrick Clenet [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1040080WK-Eglise-fortifi%C3%A9e-Bancigny.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 7 January 2007]
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view of font - side 2
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view of font - side 3
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view of font - sides 1-2
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10042BAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 02140 Bancigny, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located W of Harcigny, E of Jeantes, 12 km ESE of Vervins, 50 km NE of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin
Historical Region: Thiérache du Centre -- Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Cognate Fonts: The font at Jeantes (Nord) could be a "poor man's copy" of this font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to E.J. Erpelinck for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built in the 16thC. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115516]: " L'église possède des fonts baptismaux en pierre du 12e siècle et un groupe sculpté formant calvaire en bois polychrome du 16e siècle. Une campagne de restauration a eu lieu en 1992."
Font Notes:
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Romanesque baptismal font of the Mosan type: square basin with a rounded underbowl raised on a columnar base and a round-to-square lower base. The upper surface of the round rim around the basin well is decorated in the usual manner: a circular border with leaf (?) motif in the spandrels; the sides of the basin are decorated with 1)palmette with bunches of grapes, 2)two lions engaged in fight, 3)arcade of five round arches four of which have other motifs in them (three bearded male heads and one 6-petal flower inscribed in a circle; the centre one is blank now but may have had a motif removed); 4) [no information available]; the four outer columns of the base have foliated capitals that form part of the underbowl, while the bases are integrated in the lower base in the usual Tournai/Mosan manner, around the thick round moulding; the outer side of these columnar bases have a leaf or spur; the five columns of the base are also in the usual arrangement: a broad central shaft with four outer colonnettes. [Font not listed in Drake]. The baptismal font at Jeantes, also in the Nord department, has a decorative program similar to this one, but the quality of the carving is much poorer. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02000065]: "Fonts baptismaux avec couvercle en bois. Cuve quadrangulaire supportée par un fût monocylindrique, flanqué de 4 colonnettes. [...] 12e siècle".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.800883, 4.033275
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 48′ 3.18″ N, 4° 1′ 59.79″ E
UTM: 31U 574357 5517004
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (blue - Mosan marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 88 x 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM02000065]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]