Perthes / Perthes nr. Rethel

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - intertwined - 2

Scene Description: on one of the sides

Image Source: Digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)

Copyright Instructions: PD

animal - mammal - lion - head - vegetation stemming from the mouth

Image Source: Digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 4

Image Source: Digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)

Copyright Instructions: PD

human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides

Image Source: Digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Image copied by Bain from an Agence Meurisse photograph (no. 59582) (1916) with French caption: "Les ruines de l'église de Perthes.""

Image Source: digital image in the George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Image copied by Bain from an Agence Meurisse photograph (no. 59582) with French caption: "Les ruines de l'église de Perthes." [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church,_Perthes_LCCN2014706407.tif] [accessed 2 November 2023]

Copyright Instructions: PD-Bain / CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-70-expired

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Thimothée et Saint-Apollinaire de Perthes (Ardennes, France)" [NB: the new church that replaced the earlier one destroyed in 1916]

Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2018 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perthes-FR-08-église-04.jpg] [accessed 2 November 2023]

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view of font

Image Source: Digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)

Copyright Instructions: PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 10819PER

Church/Chapel: Église Saint-Thimothée et Saint-Apollinaire de Perthes, Ardennes

Church Patron Saints: St. Timothy & St. Apollinaire

Church Location: 4 Rue de Tagnon, 08300 Perthes, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ardennes, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located on the D985, 8 km SSW of Rethel

Historical Region: Le Pays Rethélois, Champagne-Ardenne

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type

Cognate Fonts: Les Ayvelles, Braux, etc, in the same area

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: a medieval church was replaced by a neo-Gothic one in 1868-1870; the latter was destroyed by the German Army in WWI; a new church was consecrated in 1930; damaged in WWII; restored thereafter

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Alfred Chevallier's article 'Notes sur quelques fonts baptismaux des Ardennes', in the Revue historique ardennaise, Volum 8 (1901: 303-305) includes the baptismal font at Perthes. A plate in the same source illustrates a number of them, including that of Perthes among them. Baptismal font of the Mosan type (?) consisting of a basin decorated with heads (?) at 90-degree angles on the upper basin sides, and raised on a columnar base [NB: a sketch on undeclared origin is shown in www.chooz.com/memore/patrimoine/fonds_bap.htm] [Not listed in Drake (2002)]. [NB: we have been unable to get any current information on this font; te church was destroyed in 1916, therefore the font may have been destroyed at that time].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.4498, 4.34961

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 26′ 59.28″ N, 4° 20′ 58.6″ E

UTM: 31U 597821 5478335

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round