Fontenoy-le-Chateau / Fontenay / Fonteniacum Castellum / Fontenoi le Chasteil / Fontenoy le Chastel / Fontenoy-le-Château

CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte

Results: 12 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

Apostle or saint - unidentified - 8?

Scene Description: standing in tha niches of the stem sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

animal - mammal - lion - protome - 3?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

coat of arms - Dommartin family

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

coat of arms - Dommartin family

Scene Description: "de sable à la croix d'argent"

Image Source: image of the "Blason de la maison de Rossillon et de la famille de Dommartin dessiné par Manassas pour le Projet Blasons de Wikipédia francophone" [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontenoy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

design element - motifs - floral or foliage?

Scene Description: now very eroded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

design element - motifs - niche - 8?

Scene Description: with traceried upper arches, now very eroded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: a number of them [8?] that serve as overgangs over the niches of the stem

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2004 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fontenoy_en_200_photo_004.JPG] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: viewed from the ruins of the castle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2009 by Rauenstein [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fontenoy-le-Ch%C3%A2teau,_Eglise_Saint-Mansuy2.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Intérieur : fonts baptismaux"

Image Source: digital image of an undated [between 1905 and 1937] Négatif verre; Gélatino-bromure by Jules Tillet [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP54L03073] [accessed 25 November 2022]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte

view of font cover

Scene Description: there may have been a cross as part of the finial

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 January 2010 by E2 [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonts_baptismaux_Fontenoy.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 18138FON

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Mansuy de Fontenoy-le-Château

Church Patron Saints: St. Manuetus (+375) [aka Mansuy]

Church Location: 1-9 Rue de l'Église, 88240 Fontenoy-le-Château, France

Country Name: France

Location: Vosges, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located off the D434, 7 km SW of Bains-les-Bains, 35-40 km SSW of Épinal,

Historical Region: Lorraine

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1552

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for the additional source on the font donor

Church Notes: 15thC Gothic church built on the site of the original Benedicitine priory church of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Mansuy-lès-Toul; modified 1539 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00107167]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The present baptismal font of this church is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP54L03073]: "fonts baptismaux [...] 1552". Noted and illustrated in the page on Dianne de Dommartin [https://briceverre.pagesperso-orange.fr/Diane de Dommartin] [accessed 25 November 2022]: "Diane naquit le 20 septembre 1552 au château de Fontenoy. Pour son baptême, son père offre de nouveaux fonts baptismaux à l'église. Ces fonts, toujours visibles portent les armes des Dommartin et la date de 1552." Baptismal font consisting of a polygonal [octagonal?] basin with badly-eroded tapering sides decorated with what appear to be floral or foliage motifs; the stone appears to be soft sandstone by the erosion pattern; raised on a polygonal [octagonal?] pedestal base with very prominent standing figures, probably apostles or saints; the faintly-delineated niches in which they stand have traceried patterns on the arches, and are topped by protruding scallops that are located at the bottom of the underbowl; the lower base is also polygonal [octagonal?] and is decorated at the front with a shield bearing a coat of arms identified below as the arms of Louis de Dommartin, the donor of the font in 1552; the lower base is supported by lion protomes. The metal cover is a polygonal [octagonal?] dome with a ball or orb finial; it may originally have had a cross on top. The entry for this church in Wikipedia notes on its baptismal font: "Pour le baptême de sa fille Diane en 1552, il [Louis de Dommartin] offrit à l'église de remarquables fonts baptismaux aux armes des Dommartin. Ces fonts baptismaux, dont la cuve octogonale était rongée par la corrosion du sel, utilisé pour les baptêmes depuis cinq siècles, ont fait en 2007 l'objet d'une soigneuse restauration." [NB: the original priory church here dated back to Romanesque times, but we have no information on the font from that church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.973669, 6.1994

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 58′ 25.21″ N, 6° 11′ 57.84″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Text: "1552"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]