Conde-en-Brie / Condé-en-Brie
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © La deuxième bataille de La Marne, 1919
Image Source: La deuxième bataille de La Marne (1919: 148) [www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Marne2/Marne2-5.html]
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - canopied arches - 8
Scene Description: some still housing figures or motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © La deuxième bataille de La Marne, 1919
Image Source: La deuxième bataille de La Marne (1919: 148) [www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Marne2/Marne2-5.html]
Copyright Instructions: PD
human figure
Scene Description: several remain in the arches, others lost -- a mutilated human figure, perhaps an angel?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © La deuxième bataille de La Marne, 1919
Image Source: La deuxième bataille de La Marne (1919: 148) [www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Marne2/Marne2-5.html]
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10139CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Eugène à Condé-en-Brie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Eugene
Church Notes: church "Sancta Eugénia ad Condatum in Bria" listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115900]: "Eglise à plan en forme de croix latine, tronquée par la disparition du bas-côté sud et du croisillon sud du transept [. ..] 12e siècle ; 13e siècle ; 18e siècle ; 19e siècle"
Church Address: 5 Pl. de l'Église, 02330 Saint-Eugène, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km E of Château-Thierry, about 45 km SW of Reims
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons-Laon-Saint-Quentin
Historical Region: Picardie
Additional Comments: damaged font -- cf. FontNotes
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the second half of the 13th century [classé monument historique], badly damaged; the font is illustrated in La deuxième bataille de La Marne (1919: 148) [source: www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/comment/Marne2/Marne2-5.html] where it appears as a roughly hemispherical basin with an octagonal upper rim the shape of which transfers down the sides onto the very deep carving of a series of eight angular canopies housing trefoil arches; the inside of the arches appears to have been occupied by figures or motifs, some of which have still survived (a mutilated figure looking like an angel, etc.); the spandrels created by the canopies have pointed towers in them; the base is roughly cylindrical and also damaged, though decorated originally; there appear to be several human heads facing down on the underbowl. A plain wooden lid of octagonal shape covers the basin. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02001028]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Pierre blanche [...] 13e siècle [...] Dimensions : H = 95 (sans le couvercle) ; diamètre = 110". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP54L01122].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 538868 5430104
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.0226, 3.53164
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 1′ 21.36″ N, 3° 31′ 53.9″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
- La deuxième bataille de La Marne, 1914-1918, Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin & Cie, éditeurs, 1919, p. 148
- 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.