Curchy

Image copyright © Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville, 2016

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes -- this one appears to have survived in good shape

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2014

Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: flat mouldings with broad scotia; the left side shows the post-1918 restoration

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2014

Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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information

Scene Description: posted outside the church: includes plan of interior (French and English)

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philippe rogez, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2014 by Philippe rogez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Médard_de_Curchy_-_panneau.jpg] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philippe rogez, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2014 by Philippe rogez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Médard_de_Curchy_-_côté.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philippe rogez, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2014 by Philippe rogez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Médard_de_Curchy_-_devant.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: [1890s?]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville, 2016

Image Source: héliogravure by Dujardin, in Brutails' 'La Picardie historique et monumentale', in the Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville [www1.arkhenum.fr/bm_abbeville_macqueron/_app/visualisation.php?id=10507] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: photographed prior to the post-1918 restoration -- notice the old font cover, the missing angle colonnettes of the base at the time

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France) - Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2016

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken by Philippe Des Forts, in Mémoire [DSF 3147 P] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0002/sap01_dsf3147p_t.jpg] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: post-1918 (?) restoration -- notice the modern font cover, the repairs, the new angle colonnettes, the re-tooled bases, etc.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richesses en Somme, 2014

Image Source: digital image in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-bapt-du-10e-au-13e-siècle/] [accessed 1 May 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20522CUR
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Médard
Church Patron Saints: St. Medard [aka Medardus]
Church Location: 80190 Curchy, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D337, WSW of Saint-Quentin, ESE of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original church 12thC;
Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 12th century square mounted font on a five-column base. There is a héliogravure of this font by Dujardin, in Brutails' 'La Picardie historique et monumentale', in the Bibliothèque municipale d'Abbeville [www1.arkhenum.fr/bm_abbeville_macqueron/_app/visualisation.php?id=10507] [accessed 1 May 2016]; it shows the font without a cover ca. 1890 (?). Noted and illustrated in in Mémoire [image ref.: DSF 3147 P] [pre-1918?] where the font appears without the four angle colonnettes. Described and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [www ww.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-baptismaux-avant-et-après-14-18/] [accessed 1 May 2016]: " Les fonts baptismaux, contemporains de l'église du XIIe s., ont été restaurés après la guerre de 14/18. Ils se composent d'une cuve hémisphérique creusée dans une table carrée qui repose sur un fût central. De beaux chapiteaux romans, pour certains intacts, complètent l'ensemble. Les colonnes qui les supportent sont du 20e siècle."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 489920 5513869

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1918+
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present square and flat cover is much like the one it replaced after the 1918 restoration

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902