Noircourt
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll
Scene Description: at the angles
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Markus3 (Marc Roussel), 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2007 by Markus3 (Marc Roussel) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Noircourt_église_fortifiée_(clocher_façade_Sud)_1.jpg] [accessed 7 January 2014]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin, 2014
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design element - motifs
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin, 2014
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18975NOI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: 16thC church -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115845]: "en majeure partie édifiée au 16e (choeur et base du donjon) et au 17e siècle (nef et parties hautes du donjon".
Church Address: 02340 Noircourt, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the 'vallon du Hurtaut', SE of Montcornet, 6 km S of Rozoy-sur-Serre, 35 km NE of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin
Historical Region: Portes de la Thiérache, Picardie
Font Notes:
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Limestone baptismal font consisting of a square basin with a rounded underbowl, decorated with large foliage motifs scrolling at the angles, and also decorated in the spandrels and upper surface area around the opening of the round inner well; raised on a round moulded pedestal base and a round-to-square lower base; the lower base is now partly buried in the flooring, but mouldings and some foliage motifs are discernible. The metal [copper?] font cover is a low dome decorated with small colourful enamels and a four-way Latin-cross finial. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02000872] with date in the 12th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 578796 5502167
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.666885, 4.091962
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 40′ 0.79″ N, 4° 5′ 31.06″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]