Renneville
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human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
human figure - head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
human figure - head
Scene Description: one of four
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
human figure - head - wearing headdress or crown - 4
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Image Source: Image in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHCO008_2022008000171] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Renneville (Ardennes) église St-Nicolas"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renneville_(Ardennes)_église_St-Nicolas_01.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2021]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historisch Museum Den Briel, 2021
Image Source: digital image in the Collectie Historisch Museum Den Briel
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the Museum via Pol Herman (e-mails of 15 and 16 September 2021)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 11e siècle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025
Image Source: Image in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/MHCO008_2022008000171] [accessed 26 January 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17843REN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Paroissiale Saint Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 08220 Renneville, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D337 [aka rue du Four] and D37 [aka rue de Senicourt] crossroads, just E of the dept. border with Aisne, NW of Rethel, ENE of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes
Historical Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?) [basin only], Medieval [basin only]
Cognate Fonts: the surviving fragments of the font from Zuidland (Netherlands)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefull to the Historisch Museum Den Briel for their photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for pointing out the similarities of this font with the surviving fragments of the font from Zuidland (Netherlands)
Font Notes:
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Noted in Jadart (1901). Baptismal font of local blue-grey limestone, consisting of a rounded basin with four protruding human heads at 90-degree angles; raised on a moulded cylindrical stem and an octagonal [or chamfered square] lower base that is obviously a modern replacement. The wooden cover is plain, octagonal and flat; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.657453, 4.131739
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 39′ 26.83″ N, 4° 7′ 54.26″ E
UTM: 31U 581682 5501161
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: round (with heads) - mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-01-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
Jadart, Henri, Le village et l'église de Renneville (Ardennes), 1901