Chaourse / Cadussa / Catusiacum / Chausse
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior in context - southeast end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2009 by Valmouth [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_de_Chaourse.JPG] [accessed 26 January 2014]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in the web site of the Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin [www.soissons.catholique.fr/img/1-9373-0/chaourse-fonts-baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2014]
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human figure - head - male - bearded - 4
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: at the corners of the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph in the web site of the Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin [www.soissons.catholique.fr/img/1-9373-0/chaourse-fonts-baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 26 January 2014]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19032CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin [aka Saint-Martin et Saint-Denis]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: 12thC church fortified in 1365. Listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00115581]
Church Address: 02340 Chaourse, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the D58-D74 crossroads, near Montcornet, in the canton and E of Rozoy-sur-Serre, NE of Laon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint Quentin
Historical Region: Portes de la Thiérache
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of a blue-grey limestone probably from Tournai or surrounding area; it consists of a round basin with human heads (male, bearded and wearing hat or crown) at 90-degree angles, plain rounded underbowl; raised on a plain and broad cylindrical pedestal base, and a round-to-square lower base with a large leaf motif at each angle. The wooden cover, flat and shaped like the outline of the basin top, is modern. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM02000204]: "fonts baptismaux [...] En pierre bleue de Belgique [...] 11e siècle".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 572056 5506424
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.70601, 3.99935
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 42′ 21.64″ N, 3° 59′ 57.66″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: round, with heads, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm* [la = 76]
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM02000204]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]