Saint-Pierre-lès-Franqueville / Saint-Pierre-de-la Frankville / Saint-Pierre-les-Vervins
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view of font and cover in context
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: showing the much damaged upper rim and the metal lock of the cover
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view of basin - interior - lining
Scene Description: showing the upper view of the font with the metal lining as a detachable container with its own lid -- the appalling state of the basin top quite obvious here
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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design element - architectural - arch or window - pointed - 8
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19713FRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Pierre de Saint-Pierre-lès-Franqueville
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [référence PA00115999] as originally 16thC; re-built 17thC
Church Address: rue Principale, 02140 Saint-Pierre-lès-Franqueville, France
Site Location: Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D771, near Vervins, Canton Sains-Richaumont
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Soissons (-Laon-Saint-Quentin)
Historical Region: Val de Nièvre - Grand Amiénois - Domart-en-Ponthieu - Thiérache du Centre
Additional Comments: painted font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Fournis et al. (2013) [: "La forme générale sobre et équilibrée des fonts baptismaux évoque le style de la Renaissance, mais la survivance du décor d'ogives sur le fût incite à ne pas dater l'ensemble au-delà de la première moitié du 16e siècle. [...] Le couvercle est sans doute plus tardif. [...] Les fonts baptismaux du 16e siècle sont peu nombreux, et celui-ci présente en outre l'intérêt d'avoir conservé son couvercle et sa garniture en étain." The font is shaped like an octagonal column, of which the minimal capital is the basin; the inner well of the basin has a tin insert with its own cover; the sides of the stem have alrge pointed arches or windows; the lower base is octagonal and moulded; stands on a square plinth. Bell-shaped oak cover of a later date.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 559181 5518842
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.8191, 3.8227
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 49′ 8.76″ N, 3° 49′ 21.72″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lining insert with lid
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th-19th century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Fournis, Frédéric, Le Val de Nièvre: un territoire à l'épreuve de l'industrie : Picardie, Lyon: Éditions Lieux Dits, 2013, p. 49 / [fonts-baptismaux-leur-couvercle-et-leur-bassin-1.pdf] [accessed 11 February 2025]