Wiry-au-Mont / Wiri

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: forming the capitals of the outer colonnettes of the base
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Image Source: photograph in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 26 April 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the outer colonnettes of the base
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Image Source: photograph in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 26 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2015 by APictche [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiry-au-Mont_(Somme),_France_(3).JPG] [accessed 26 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Wiri : Fonts baptismaux. - Extr. de "La Picardie historique et monumentale" [...] Aquarelle. Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Hal. 46A"
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Soyez (1893-1938), watercolour in the Archives et Bibliothèque patrimoniale d’Abbeville, Hal. 46A [https://patrimoine.abbeville.fr/collection/item/33102-wiri-fonts-baptismaux-extr-de-la-picardie-historique-et-monumentale?offset=17] [accessed 10 February 2025]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine - diffusion RMN, 2012
Image Source: Négatif noir et blanc ; gélatino-bromure; support verre; tache [No. DSF 3254 P] [ref.: APDSF3254], by Philippe Des Forts
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view of font and cover

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Image Source: photograph in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 26 April 2016]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 18135WIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Place de l’Église, 80270, Wiry-au-Mont, Somme
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the RD936, between Airaines and Oisemont, in the arrondissement de Abbeville, canton de Gamaches
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Région d'Hallencourt, Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Gothic
Church Notes: fortified church, re-built 1955
Font Notes:
Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM80001401]: "fonts baptismaux [...] grès : taillé [...] 13e siècle". Described and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/] [accessed 3 August 2012], with date in the second half of the 12th century: "Les fonts baptismaux datant de la deuxième moitié du XIIe s. sont creusés dans un massif rectangle de grès. Ils se composent d'une tablette profilée en un bandeau surmonté d'un tore qui repose sur une cuve arrondie, cantonnée à chacun de ses angles d'un faisceau de trois colonnettes. Les chapiteaux sont décorés de feuilles de plantain, et les bases attiques reposent sur un socle pris lui-même dans le bloc de pierre." The design of this font includes a rounded basin in a quadrangular frame formed by four angle colonnettes, with some variants, like the other medieval fonts in the Somme at Bergicourt, Cerisy-Buleux, Faverolles, Fourcigny, Gentelles, Neuville-les-Loeuilly, Rouvrel, etc. In this case there are three columns at each angle, the capitals bearing large-leaf motifs, the bases moulded. The font appears fairly weathered on the outside.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 416847 5535228

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Soyez, Edmond, La Picardie historique et monumentale, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1893-1938., 1893-1938