Lavacquerie

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Results: 10 records

B02: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: rhe one on the left is clearly St. Peter; to one on the right could be St. Paul [if a sword], or St. Bartholomew [if a flaying knife] [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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B03: angel - holding candle - 2 - back-to-back

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Claude Shoshany, 2007

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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B04: animal - mammal - ram?

Scene Description: identification suggested in the Patrimoine de France database [cf. Font notes]

BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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BS01: design element - motifs - tassel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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BS02: design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals and bases

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 15 July 2007 by Claude Shoshany [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lavacquerie_Eglise_St_Firmin_Fonts_babtismaux.JPG] [accessed 2 April 2010]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de la mare de la rue principale, vers l'église".

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Claude Shoshany, 2007

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16293LAV
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Firmin
Church Patron Saints: St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]
Church Location: 60120 Lavacquerie, France
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in off the D106, in the canton Grandvilliers, ENE of Granvilliers, arrondissement Beauvais
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: La Picardie verte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font
Cognate Fonts: Berneuil and Hétomesnil in France [cf. FontNotes] -- lead fonts of the 12th and 13th century in Britain, though the decoration varies
Church Notes: church 12th, 13th and 15thC
Listed in Palissy [réf.: PM60000962]: "fonts baptismaux sont composés d'une cuve en plomb de forme circulaire, très légèrement tronconique, formée de deux éléments assemblés et d'un socle en pierre taillée, polie, de même diamètre que la cuve et décorée en partie supérieure de deux tores circulaires séparés par une large gorge [...] La cuve des fonts baptismaux, circulaire, est ornée d'une série de quatorze arcatures trilobées brisées retombant sur des colonnettes. Au-dessus de chacune des colonnettes, un pinacle décoré d'un trilobe et couronné d'une toiture conique. Sous les arcatures sont représentés en alternance saint Pierre et deux anges céroféraires dos à dos. Saint Pierre auréolé, debout, de face, porte la clef de la main gauche et bénit de la main droite. Les deux anges, plus petits que le saint Pierre, sont figurés de profil tenant chacun un cierge de leurs deux mains. Leurs ailes se dressent verticalement jusque sous l'intrados de l'arc trilobé. Sur deux faces opposées, une tête animale (un bélier ?) couronne la représentation de saint Pierre. Les figures placées sous les arcatures sont toutes identiques, reproduites en série." Noted and illustrated in Dominique Vermand's Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/lavacquerie-eglise-saint-firmin/] [accessed 25 June 2017]: "Saint-Firmin possède une cuve baptismale en plomb de la seconde moitié du 13ème siècle. Rappelant celle d’Hétomesnil, son décor est constitué d’une suite d’arcatures où s’inscrivent, en alternance, saint Pierre et deux anges (2007)." Lead baptismal font; the bucket-shaped metal basin has an arcade of trefoiled arches on columns with capitals and bases all around; inside the arches are figures, alternating the Apostles -one is clearly Peter with his key- with pairs of angels back-to-back holding large candles; the spandrels of the arcade are decorated with a motif that looks like a tassel over a trefoil; the other figures -not the angels- are raised on shell-like stands; there are thin roll mouldings at the upper and lower rims; the underbowl is flat; is is raised on a stone cylindrical pedestal base with mouldings at the top end. A metal loop has been riveted to the side of the rim; it appears modern, but there are other parts of the rim where the original hinges and hasp of the lock may have been. The basin appears to have been covered in silver paint. The wooden cover is flat, round and plain; appears modern. Palissy (ibid.) further identifies two animal heads, and dates the font to the second half of the 13th century and gives the font at Berneuil, near Dullens, Somme, and the font at Hétomesnil, as cognates, but variations in the ornamentation.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 434636 5503691

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead [basin only]
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Total Height: 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [réf.: PM60000962]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]