Noyelle-Vion

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2006 by Gloran [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noyelle-Vion-Eglise-Juillet-2006.jpg] [accessed 15 June 2017]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10105NOY

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [base only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font? [base only]

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption

Font Location in Church: Inside the church?

Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Notes: present church is 18thC

Church Address: rue de l'Eglise, 62810 Noyelle-Vion, France

Site Location: Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off the D75-D78E2 crossroads, WSW of Habarcq, 16 km W of Arras

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese d'Arras

Historical Region: L'Atrébatie, L'Atois

Additional Comments: altered font (only the base of the original 12thC font here remains)

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font mentioned in Oursel (1994: 227) in the context of the Tournai fonts of Avesnes-le-Comte and Evin-Malmaison [cf. corresponding Index entries]: the lower base is decorated with monstruous animal heads at the angles. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM62001169] as the base of a Tournai font of the 12th century: "Base des fonts baptismaux. Pierre de Tournay."

n a communication between Jean-Claude Ghislain and Pol Herman (e-mail of 22 April 2022) Ghislain wrote: "Voici quelques repères relatifs aux éléments de fonts baptismaux romans tournaisiens dont vous citez les noms de lieux [...] Noyelle-Vion (Pas-de-Calais) : base".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 467988 5571183

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

REFERENCES

Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994, p. 227