Amiens No. 4

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Scene Description: around the lower base, giving the name of the donor and the date

Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-14e-au-18e/] [accessed 9 January 2022] [accessed 9 January 2022]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancienne église paroissiale et cimetière Saint-Firmin-en-Castillon d'Amiens (détruits) - Amiens. Vue de l'Eglise de St firmin en castillon, du côté de la Maison Commune, Limozin(BNF ; Ve-26i-Fol. Coll. Destailleur Province, t. 4 , n. 1114)."

Image Source: digital image of a 1792 illustration, in gallica.bnf.fr (BNF ; Ve-26i-Fol. Coll. Destailleur Province, t. 4 , n. 1114) [https://inventaire.hautsdefrance.fr/dossier/ancienne-eglise-paroissiale-et-cimetiere-saint-firmin-en-castillon-d-amiens-detruits/5bcfd392-caba-4275-9adb-02803eb0ed58/illustration/] [accessed 9 January 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18080AMI

Church/Chapel: Ancienne Collégiale Saint-Firmin-le-Confesseur [destroyed]

Church Patron Saints: St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]

Church Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Country Name: France

Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France

Directions to Site: The former collegiate church was destroyed in the late 18thC [NB: for location pf the font see the BSI entry for the cathedral church of Amiens]

Historical Region: Picardie

Font Location in Church: [in Amiens catherdral since 1792]

Date: 1672

Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque

Church Notes: the church was built in the 15thC; an earlier church may have existed there in the 13thC, and as early as the 7thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA80002320]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Rivoire (1806), and Gilbert (1833) after him, reports the presence of a second font in thie cathedral, one that had belonged to the church of St. Firmin the Confessor until the Revolution, in the chapel of St. Peter & St. Paul, to which place it had been moved in 1791 [1792?]; this font, notes Rivoire (ibid.), is elegant and made of Italian marble, the oval basin raised on an overly slender baluster pedestal base also of marble. On it is a notice that identifies the donor of both font and cover: "On lit tout autour: 'Ces fonts baptismaux et clôture ont été donnés par André le Seillier, écuyer, et M François Dincourt, tous deux Marguilliers en 1672.' La hauteur de ces fonts est d'environ un mèt[re] 25 cent . (3 pieds 9 pouces.)" The transcription of the inscription is slightly different in in Virgile Brandicourt (1915) [https://www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-14e-au-18e/] [accessed 9 January 2022] [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church -- this chuch not to be mistaken with the 19th-century Eglise paroissiale Saint-Firmin-le-Martyr]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Italian)

Font Shape: oval (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: oval

Font Height (with Plinth): 125 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Rivoire (1806)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: around the lower base of the font

Inscription Text: "Ces fonts baptismaux et clôture ont été donnés par André le Seillier, écuyer, et M François Dincourt, tous deux Marguilliers en 1672."

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1672

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Gilbert, Antoine Pierre Marie, Description historique de l'église cathédrale de Notre-Dame d'Amiens, Amiens: Chez Caron-Vitet [...], 1833

Rivoire, Maurice, Description de l'église cathédrale d'Amiens [...] avec la relation de la Siége [sic] d'Amiens, Amiens: Imprimerie de Maisnel fils [...], 1806