Amiens No. 5
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view of church exterior - south portal
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view of church exterior in context - south view
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west façade
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20523AMI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century (mid?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Germain-l'Ecossais d'Amiens [deconsecrated]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germain le Scot [aka Germain d'Amiens, Germain de Sénarpont]
Church Notes: first mentioned 1131; present church built 1455-1490 -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00116052] -- "C'est, après la Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens et l'église Saint-Leu d'Amiens, la plus ancienne église de la ville. Elle a été desacralisée et est actuellement fermée au public car elle est dangereuse. Des travaux de restauration vont être entrepris dans les années à venir. "
Church Address: rue Saint-Germain / rue Pingre, 80000 Amiens, France [closed to the public]
Site Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 120 km from Calais and Paris. The church is located in the city centre, about 500 yards NW of the cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Amiens
Historical Region: Picardie
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original mid-to-late 15th century church here)
Font Notes:
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Guérard (1860) mentions the font several times as a reference point within the church but gives no details of it. Brutails (1893-1899) has: "Pagés nous apprend aussi que des fonts baptismaux de marbre noir avaient été donnés à l'église en 1654 et 1656 par Claude Decourt [...] et par damoiselle Madeleine Oger son épouse". The Inventaire Hauts-de-France [https://inventaire .hautsdefrance.fr] [accessed 28 July 2017] reports a baptismal font made of black marble donated to the church in the mid-17th century by Claude Decour [cf. Brutails supra]: "fonts baptismaux en marbre noir donnés au milieu du 17e siècle par Claude Decour". Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM80000817]: "fonts baptismaux en marbre noir donnés au milieu du 17e siècle par Claude Decour." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original mid-to-late 15th century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 449466 5527348
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.89639, 2.29639
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 53′ 47″ N, 2° 17′ 47″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (black)
REFERENCES
- Brutails, Jean-Auguste, La Picardie historique et monumentale, Amiens: Société des antiquaires de Picardie. Fondation Edmond Soyez / Imprimerie Yvert et Tellier, 1893-1899, vol. 3: 139-140
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.