Largny-sur-Automne
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animal - mammal - lion? - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left; several of them head-to-tail
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Image Source: digital photograph [NUMI 07025477NUCA] taken 2003 by Pierre-Yves Corbel; in Mémoire [ref.: MHR22_07025477]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: very large leaves semi-buried in the flooring now
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Image Source: digital photograph [NUMI 07025477NUCA] taken 2003 by Pierre-Yves Corbel; in Mémoire [ref.: MHR22_07025477]
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design element - patterns - torsade
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Image Source: digital photograph [NUMI 07025477NUCA] taken 2003 by Pierre-Yves Corbel; in Mémoire [ref.: MHR22_07025477]
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view of church interior - frieze
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Image Source: photograph issue date 2008 by Edwin Rae in TARA [ http://hdl.handle.net/2262/16308] TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph [NUMI 07025476NUCA] taken 2003 by Pierre-Yves Corbel; in Mémoire [ref.: MHR22_07025476]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19008LAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Denis
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: rue Saint Denis, 02600 Largny-sur-Automne, France
Country Name: France
Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located on the D231, WNW of Villers-Cotterêts, SW of Soissons and Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin
Historical Region: Villers-Cotterêts - Forêt de Retz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Church Notes: church originally of the 12thC -- Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115773]: "Eglise en forme de croix latine, édifiée dans la seconde moitié du 12e siècle et achevée au début du 13e. Au 16e siècle, adjonction d'un porche ; reconstruction des bas-côtés, du bras nord du transept et de la voûte de la nef. Le choeur, le transept et une partie du bas-côté sud sont voûtés d'ogives. La nef, les bas-côtés et le porche sont couverts d'un lambris. Edification de la sacristie au 17e siècle."
Font Notes:
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Stone baptismal font consisting of plain square basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a torsade round pedestal; the lower base has several lions (?) passant head-to-tail to the left on a moulding or platform, with very large leaves below; this lower part of the base, below the lion platform, is mostly buried in the flooring now. The wooden cover is square, fitted to the rim of the basin. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM02000668] and Mémoire [ref.: MHR22_07025476 and MHR22_07025477] with date in the 15th century. [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 12th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.260474, 3.042151
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 15′ 37.7″ N, 3° 2′ 31.75″ E
UTM: 31U 503049 5456483
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]