Launois-sur-Vence
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: one of the four heads
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view of church exterior - corbel
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view of church exterior - corbel
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view of church exterior - corbel
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: showing two heads; one of the two not seen here is damaged
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20603LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Étienne de Launois-sur-Vence
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: 08430 Launois-sur-Vence, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D3, SW of Charleville-Mézières
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Reims
Historical Region: Crêtes Préardennaises
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ardennes group of Mosan fonts [Collin]
Church Notes: 12thC church, modified 13th, 15th, 16thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078455]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bluish limestone; it consists of an octagonal basin decorated with four human heads at 90-degree angles, one of them damaged; rounded underbowl; raised on a plain round pedestal base too broad to be the original [unless the basin was imported and the base done localy 'on the cheap'. The font was whitewashed at some point, and is now covered in dreadful-looking patches of peeling paint. The font is of the type of the later Ardennes workshops, but Palissy [cf. infra] has it with date in the 12th century. Wooden font cover, flat, with two knob handles; appears modern. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000288]: "Cuve baptismale en pierre bleue peinte en blanc présentant quatre têtes d'angle semblables, dont l'une a été mutilée [...] 12e siècle".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.6533, 4.5459
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 39′ 11.88″ N, 4° 32′ 9.24″ E
UTM: 31U 610861 5501217
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 5-13 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 83 cm*
Basin Total Height: 30 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 98 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM08000288]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]