Noircourt

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design element - motifs

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design element - motifs - foliage

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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18975NOI

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: 02340 Noircourt, France

Country Name: France

Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France

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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

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".

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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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.666885, 4.091962

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 40′ 0.79″ N, 4° 5′ 31.06″ E

UTM: 31U 578796 5502167

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]