Bertoncourt
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henri Docquin, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2013 by Henri Docquin [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Bertoncourt_01.JPG] [accessed 14 March 2015]
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Matot braine 08498 eglise de bertoncourt"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © G.Garitan, 2016
Image Source: digital image of an undated drawing photographed by G.Garitan 19 October 2016 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matot_braine_08498_eglise_de_bertoncourt.jpg] [accessed 2 November 2023]
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Chevallier (1901)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19758BER
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 08300 Bertoncourt, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D110, NE of Rethel,
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims
Historical Region: Pays Rethélois, Champagne-Ardenne
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1150-1155?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation Beauchevain? [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: E. Jolibois' Histoire... (1847: 173) notes that Betoncourt church was a "succursale de Rethel" in the late 17thC; the present church was built in 1737
Alfred Chevallier's article 'Notes sur quelques fonts baptismaux des Ardennes', in the Revue historique ardennaise, Volum 8 (1901: 303-305) includes the baptismal font at Bertoncourt: "Les fonts de Bertoncourt, près de Rethel [...] on peut les attribuer à la fin du XII ou au commencement du xшe siècle La cuve octogone repose sur un fût cylindrique dont la base est ornée d un tore aplati avec fleurs de lis aux angles [...] Les fonts de Bertoncourt et de Saulces Monclin sont en pierre blanche" -- A plate in the same source illustrates a number of them, including that of Bertoncourt among them. Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation Beauvechain, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1150-1155, and, from the remaining fragment, a similarity is established with the fonts at Lustin, Outgaarden, Beauvechain, and the one originally from Mercken (M.R.A.H., Bruxelles). The surviving fragment is a much damaged corner of the lower base; it shows the surving roll moulding with a lovely corner leaf.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
49.5369,
4.4017
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
49° 32′ 12.84″ N,
4° 24′ 6.12″ E
UTM: 31U 601416 5488087
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009
