Chaumont-Porcien
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the present building of the commemorative chapel of St. Berthauld in Chaumont-Porcien [cf. ChurchNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2007 by Jpcuvelier [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Site_de_l'ermitage_de_St_Berthauld_à_Chaumont-Porcien.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2013]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the present parish church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Havang(nl), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chaumont-Porcien_(Ardennes)_Église.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2013]
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view of church interior - looking east
![interior of the the present building of the commemorative chapel of St. Berthauld in Chaumont-Porcien [cf. ChurchNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1131225012_compressed.png)
Scene Description: interior of the the present building of the commemorative chapel of St. Berthauld in Chaumont-Porcien [cf. ChurchNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2012 by Havang(nl) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mont_Saint_Bertauld_(Chaumont-Porcien),_intérieur_de_la_chapelle_commémorative.JPG] [accessed 25 December 2013]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2013
Image Source: Tirage photographique no. 08W00238 -- Mémoire [ref.: AP08W00238]
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches
Scene Description: the leaves are of palmette-like design
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2013
Image Source: Tirage photographique no. 08W00238 -- Mémoire [ref.: AP08W00238]
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design element - motifs - foliage?
Scene Description: at the angles? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (objets mobiliers), 2013
Image Source: Tirage photographique no. 08W00238 -- Mémoire [ref.: AP08W00238]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18905CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Sainte-Croix [ancienne collégiale]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Notes: original collegiate church of regular canons here in 1078; given to the Premonstratensians in 1147, responsible for the building of a church dedicated to St. Berthauld, a 5th-6thC Irish monk who lived in this area. Of the original abbey site only a modern chapel dedicated to St Berthauld remains
Church Address: 12 D2, 08220 Chaumont-Porcien, France
Site Location: Ardennes, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the D2, 12 km from Séry, 16 km WSW of Signy-l'Abbaye, halfway between Laon (WSW) and Charleville-Mézières (ENE)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims-Ardennes
Historical Region: Crêtes Préardennaises
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font here is one of the popular square table-top type made of the blue limestone of Tournai or the nearby quarries (Givet, etc.); it consists of a square basin, the sides carved with rounded acanthus plant and fruit motifs, the underbowl rounded and decorated at the angles with now faint shapes that are probably large leaves; the base consists of a very broad circular shaft in the centre and four thinner columns at 90-degree angles, apparently constructional with the centre shaft; all plain; the lower base is now below ground level and buried by the later raised flooring, but the discernible shapes suggest it is the usual combination of mouldings forming base for the columns of the base. A round cover of stacked mouldings is of roughly conical shape; not medieval. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000142]: " fonts baptismaux [...] calcaire : taillé [...] 12e siècle"
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 590062 5500385
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.649285, 4.247635
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 38′ 57.43″ N, 4° 14′ 51.49″ E
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): 43.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 94 x 94 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Palissy [ref.: PM08000142]: "h = 43,5 ; la = 94 ; pr = 94"] [NB: the height here may reflect the fact that part of the base of the font is now below ground level]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- "Les fonts baptismaux romans en Thiérache", no. 44 (juin-juillet 2007), Chez Nous [éd.Thiérache], 2007, pp. 4; p. 4