Cousolre No. 2 / Cousolr / Curtis Solra

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view of font and cover

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

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design element - motifs - moulding

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inscription

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 19761COU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1525?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame de Cousolre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 59149 Cousolre, France
Site Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D936, 6-7 km WNW of Beaumont, about 30 km SW of Charleroi
Historical Region: L'Avesnois
Font Notes:
Baptismal font made of blue limestone in 1525; inscription on its base; replaced the 12th-century Romanesque font now in the museum at Lille. Enlart (1902) lists a Cousolre font in a group of octagonal fonts ornamented with mouldings [NB: Enlart is obviously referring to the later, 16th-century font here]. The Avesnois web site [http://villesetvillagesdelavesnois.org/cousolre/cousolre.html] [accessed 15 March 2015] notes: "Les fonts baptismaux, taillés en pierre bleue, ont été donnés en 1525 par les femmes de la paroisse ainsi que le témoigne l'inscription gothique gravée à la base: L'AN 1 VC XXV DONE P LES FEM Ils remplacent les fonts romans du XIIIème siècle qui sont aujourd'hui exposés au musée des Beaux-arts de Lille." Oddly, the basin is octagonal but the pedestal and lower base are hexagonal; the type of stone differs also between basin and base. Noted in Palissy [ref.: IM59001723]: "Ces fonts baptismaux sont en calcaire du bassin de la Sambre, dit pierre de Soignies. De plan hexagonal, ils sont composés de trois éléments cimentés entre eux (pied, fût et cuve) [...] Date et inscription (incomplète) gravées sur deux pans du pied : l'an I C XXV done p les fem."

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.245222, 4.151362
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 14′ 42.8″ N, 4° 9′ 4.9″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Soignies)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 61.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM59001723]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French
Inscription Location: on the base
Inscription Text: "l'an 1 vc xxv done p lez fem"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; with side lock

REFERENCES

  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 774 footnote 2 and p. 775 footnote 3