Saint-Thibault / St-Thibault

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

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [ca.2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-thibault-eglise-saint-thibault/] [accessed 29 June 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken [ca.2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-thibault-eglise-saint-thibault/] [accessed 29 June 2017]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18097THI
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Thibault
Church Patron Saints: St. Theobald [aka Thibault, Thiébaut]
Church Location: 60210 Saint-Thibault, France
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D315, right next with the departmental border with Somme, NW of Grandvilliers, NNW of Beauvais, SW of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Beauvais - Noyon - Senlis
Historical Region: La Picardie verte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM60001495] as a limestone baptismal font of the 13th century, made of several blocks, and in very poor state of preservation. Described as an octagonal basin in a frame made up of four clusters of thre colonnettes each, raised on a chamfered base or plinth, a design also found in the fonts at Fouencamps, Gentelles, etc., in the same area; the inner well of the basin is round and divided into two compartments lined with lead. Part of the base has been repaired using bricks. The original cover has disappeared but the metal staples are in place. [NB: not known whether the compartments are a later alteration, or if it is just the lining that creates the partition]; the lower part of tha basin on the outside is in the shape of an inverted octagonal pyramid. [= "Les fonts baptismaux en pierre calcaire sculptée sont composés d'une cuve octogonale cantonnée de quatre faisceaux de trois colonnettes également octogonales qui portent une table carrée. Le fond de la cuve en forme de pyramide octogonale inversée et les colonnettes des angles reposent sur une base chanfreinée. L'intérieur de la cuve est de forme circulaire et divisé en deux compartiments doublés en plomb. [...] La base a été en partie refaite en briques. Le couvercle d'origine des fonts a disparu, mais les gonds sont toujours en place [...] Des fonts baptismaux de forme assez proche, c'est-à-dire composés d'une cuve maintenue sous un cadre par des groupes de trois colonnettes placés dans chaque angle, existent dans divers églises du Nord de la France, notamment à Gentelles ou Fouencamps."]. Noted and illustrated in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-thibault-eglise-saint-thibault/] [accessed 29 June 2017]: "sobre cuve baptismale en pierre, du 16ème siècle" [and this source gives the diocese as Amiens]. The font is of a design common in this area in the 12th and 13th centuries, a basin surrounded in a square frame with supporting columns; this one is uncommon in that the basin is actually octagonal; the supporting colonnettes are clustered at four angles; the wooden font cover is a modern replacement, square and flat, fitted to the upper rim; a hinged lid opens at the top to give access to the basin interior. The octagonal shape of the basin is not common in this type of Romanesque 'suspended basin' font design, but neither is it unique; see for example the lovely font at Saint-Vaast-lès-Mello, also in Oise.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 416792 5505982

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead-lined [cf. FontNotes]
Font Height (with Plinth): 92 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 91 x 91 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM60001495]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat fitted frame on upper rim of the basin; hinged lid opening for access to the inner basin