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B01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI

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information

Scene Description: origin of the font [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Ancienne Eglise St-Martin Usseslkirch, now destroyed

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Image Source: original unknown - posted in Wikipedia by bubudu57 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Boustegliseusselskirch.jpg] [accessed 8 August 2011]

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the two holes in the basin side

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2011 by Noha Sadek for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17561BOU
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale St-Martin / Usselskirch / Lutzelenkirche [destroyed] [moved to the cathedral of Metz]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: France
Location: Moselle, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement de Thionville-Est, canton de Cattenom
Historical Region: Lorraine
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Noha Sadek for their photographs of this font
Church Notes: the present church of Saint-Maximin was built in 1962 to replace Usselskirch destroyed in the war
Baptismal font consisting of a rather shallow circular basin mounted on a broad central shaft and four attached outer colonnettes, decorated with moulded capitals abd bases, at 90-degree angles; on a square lower base; the font appears medieval, but there are two (?) suspicious drain holes on the side of the basin [not able to ascertaing whether a central drain existed in the basin and was blocked; are the side drains a later addition? A notice standing by the font informs that the font and the tower are the only remains of the village, which was destroyed in the war [WWII?] [NB: we have no information on the date when the font was transferred to Metz cathedral]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round