Faverolles nr. Montdidier

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-%C3%A9glises/fonts-baptismaux/] [accessed 3 August 2012]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-%C3%A9glises/fonts-baptismaux/] [accessed 3 August 2012]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 18133FAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre Dame de l’Assomption [aka Église Sainte Marie, Notre Dame]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 80500 Faverolles, Somme
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located in the arrondissement and canton de Montdidier
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Gothic
Font Notes:
Roger et al. (1844) mention in passing the baptistery [="la chapelle des fonts baptismaux"], but not the font itself. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80000595] as a baptismal font of ther 13th century, but no details given in the listing. Noted and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/] [accessed 3 August 2012]: "Les Fonts baptismaux du XIIIe s. d’une seule pierre, se présentant sous la forme d’une cuve ronde dans un encadrement carré avec une colonnette à chaque angle. Ces fonts étaient protégés, avant la guerre 14/18, par une clôture en bois très décorée et en particulier par des têtes d’anges." The design of this font includes a rounded basin in a quadrangular frame formed by four angle colonnettes, with some varians, like the other medieval fonts in the Somme at Bergicourt, Cerisy-Buleux, Fourcigny, Gentelles, Neuville-les-Loeuilly, Rouvrel, Wiry au Mont, etc. The only decoration on it are the moulded capitals and bases of the angle colonnettes. The former wooden structure that covered the font before 1918 has disappeared. It now sports a low-dome quadrangular wooden cover with a short cross finial; appears modern but, is this the same font cover listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80000596]?: "clôture des fonts baptismaux [...] 16e siècle".

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 472670 5499719

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

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

REFERENCES

Joanne, Adolphe Laurent, Itinéraire général de la France: La Normandie, Paris: Libraririe L. Hachette et Cie., 1867