Saint-Just-en-Chaussee / Saint-Just-en-Beauvaisy / Saint-Just-en-Chaussée / Saint-Just-l'Abbaye / Sinomovicus

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animal - mammal - lion - couchant-gardant - 2 - back to back

Scene Description: executed in a caricaturesque manner that makes them resemble playful kittens
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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animal - mammal - lion - head - inverted - vegetation stemming from mouth

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: some of the columns have torsade pattern on them, others are plain
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin; one has a plain stem; another has a torsade pattern...
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8-petal

Scene Description: this motif is identical to the one that appears in one of the spandrels of the upper rim surface, the two rosettes on the sides of the human head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8-petal - 2

Scene Description: on the sides of the human head here; they are identical to the ones found in the arches of the arcade that decorates the side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the curved lower base -- is any part of the base original, other than the central shaft?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large leaves decorate the capitals of the angle colonnettes as well as the underbowl proper
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus - with arum

Scene Description: stemming from an upturned lion head's mouth are four highly-stylised acanthus plants with bunches of arum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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human figure - face, head or mask?

Scene Description: incised in some of the arches of the arcade; were they later additions?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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human figure - head - wearing hat

Scene Description: is it a bishop's head wearing a mitre?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dominique Vermand, [2007?]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken [2007?] by Dominique Vermand, in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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view of basin

Scene Description: in 1996
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 2012
Image Source: 1996 photograph by C. David, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR22_96603177ZA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 4 August 2012]
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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Just-en-Chaussé_(60),_église_Sain-Just_1.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fab5669, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2017 by Fab5669 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Just-en-Chaussée_-_église.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Just-en-Chaussée_(60),_église_Saint-Just,_vue_générale_intérieure.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P.poschadel, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 July 2013 by P.poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Just-en-Chaussée_(60),_église_Saint-Just,_croisée,_vue_dans_la_nef.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2017]
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ronse (1929: fig.16)
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Ronse (1929: fig.17)
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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Archives départementales de la Somme, 2012
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [ca. 1900-1913] by Félix Martin-Sabon [ref.: 14 FI 15/7] in the Archives départementales de la Somme [http://archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/a011308867881EnArnM ] [accessed 4 August 2012]
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view of font

Scene Description: after the restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2012
Image Source: B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP60W00512] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 4 August 2012]
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view of font

Scene Description: before 1896 and its restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2012
Image Source: B&W photograph [pre-1896] by Félix Martin-Sabon in Mémoire [ref.: APMH047046] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 4 August 2012]
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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: in 1996
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 2012
Image Source: 1996 photograph by C. David, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR22_96603176ZA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr] [accessed 4 August 2012]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 18139JUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Just
Church Patron Saints: St. Juste de Beauvais (3rdC martyr)
Church Location: 20 rue de Beauvais, 60130 Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, France -- Tel.: +33 3 44 78 51 12
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D-916-D938 crossroads, is 29 kms ENE of Beauvais, 80 km N of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Beauvais, Noyon et Senlis
Historical Region: Le Plateau Picard, Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: other Tournai fonts
Church Notes: Said to be the font of the original Romanesque church that was burned down in 1636 by Spanish troops.
Font Notes:
Noted in Roger et al. (1844) "Les fonts baptismaux en granit [!] et de forme carrée fixent l'attention des étrangers. De curieux bas-reliefs ornent leurs faces. Ces sculptures représentent des figures grotesques d'hommes et des dragons. Le bassin est porté par un pied rond et massif. Les colonnettes placées aux angles de ces fonts sont d une autre matière que le bassin" [the entry is footnoted: "Renseignements communiqués par M. l'abbé Cottenoble, desservant de Saint-Just"]. Noted in Richard's guide of 1866 as an interesting baptismal font of the 11th or 12th century. Cloquet (1895) adds the Saint-Just en Chaussée font to Enlart's list of Tournai fonts, although it did appear listed in Enlart's text. Enlart (1902) has it as a Tournai font on a five-column base and mentions facing lions as ornamentation. Classed also as a Tournai font in Bond (1908: 205), after Enlart, and in Drake (2002: 177 etc.) Illustrated in Ronse (1929: fig. 16-17). Catalogued in Palissy [ref.: PM60001442], and illustrated in Mémoire (ibid.) [refs.: AP60W00512 -- APMH047046 -- IVR22_96603177ZA -- IVR22_96603176ZA]: baptismal font made of the blue-black limestone of Tournai, consisting of a square basin the sides of which are decorated with a pair of back-to-back lions that resemble cats, a monstruous head issuing grape vines from its mouth, an arcade [...] probably from Tournai, 12th century, following Tollenaere's typology of fonts; restored [="Les fonts baptismaux, en "pierre bleue" se composent d'une cuve de plan carré montée sur un support central circulaire cantonné de quatre colonnettes, l'ensemble reposant sur une base de plan carré. [...] Chacune des quatre colonnettes est couronnée d'un chapiteau décoré de feuilles plates et à nervure unique. Les quatre faces de la cuve sont décorées de sculptures en très faible relief : deux lions dos à dos (ressemblant à des chats), une tête monstrueuse crachant des rinceaux de vigne, des arcatures en plein cintre. [...] Les fonts baptismaux de Saint-Just appartiennent à la famille des fonts baptismaux en "pierre bleue" décoré de sculptures en faible relief. Ces pièces ont été réalisées au 12e siècle dans les régions mosanes et tournaisiennes. Elles ont été diffusées dans les anciens diocèses de Liège, Cambrai, Reims, Laon et même en Angleterre et en Scandinavie [!]. L'exemplaire de Saint-Just, probablement d'origine tournaisienne si l'on se réfère à la typologie de L. Tollenaere, illustre une diffusion méridionale de la production. [...] oeuvre restaurée - Colonnettes reprises. Anciens ragréages. [...] 12e siècle". Noted and illustrated in Dominique Vermand [ca. 2005?] [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/saint-just-en-chaussee-eglise-saint-just/] [accessed 29 June 2017]. One would think that the arcade on the basin side may probably have been blind originally, the incised motifs added at a later date, but the octafoil floral motif that appears in some of the arches is identical to the one found in one of the spandrels of the upper rim surface of the basin, on the sides of the human face with a conical hat.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 30′ 22.82″ N, 2° 25′ 52.19″ E
UTM: 31U 458856 5483941

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm* [includes lower base]
Square Base Dimensions: 85 x 88 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref. PM60001442]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 319
Drake, Colin Stuart, "The English Group of Tournai Fonts in the Context of the Whole School", 29 (September 2002), Ecclesiology Today: Journal of the Ecclesiological Society [successor to the Cambridge Camden Society], 2002, pp. 3-11; p. 177ff
Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Joanne, Adolphe Laurent, Itinéraire général de la France: La Normandie, Paris: Libraririe L. Hachette et Cie., 1867
Oursel, Hervé, Nord roman: Flandre, Artois, Picardie, Laonnois, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1994
Richard [aka Audin, Jean-Marie Vincent], [pseud. de Jean-Marie Vincent Audin], Guide du voyageur en France, Paris: L. Hachette, 1866
Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929