Villers-Campsart

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INFORMATION
FontID: 20532VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité
Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Location: 80140 Villers-Campsart, France
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located on the RD29, just S of Fresneville, 10 km WNW of Hornoy-le-Bourg, 36 km S of Abbeville, 38 km W of Amiens
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d’Amiens
Historical Region: Sud-Ouest Amiénois, Picardie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1506?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Church Notes: present church 1506
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Richesses en Somme [www.richesses-en-somme.com/patrimoine-des-églises/fonts-baptismaux/fonts-moulurés/] [accessed 7 May 2016]. Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering sides, on an octagonal pedestal base with with a pronounced moulding in the centre; totally covered in whitewash. Wooden cover of octagonal shape at the base, with eough raised rinbs around a centre pivot converging at the turned finial.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]