Maisoncelle in Maisoncelle-et-Villers
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP08W00501] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1373/sap83_08w00501_p.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue de l'église de Maisoncelle-et-Villers depuis la route de la Raminoise"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francis08, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2011 by Francis08 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Sainte-Geneviève_de_Maisoncelle-et-Villers.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2016]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [ref.: AP08W00501] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1373/sap83_08w00501_p.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 20604MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Sainte-Geneviève à Maisoncelle
Church Patron Saints: St. Genevieve [aka Genofeva, Genoveva]
Church Location: 08450 Maisoncelle-et-Villers, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Maisoncelle was merged with Villers-devant-Raucourt in 1828 forming the new commune of Maisoncelle-et-Villers. It is located off the D27, between Chémery-sur-Bar (W) and Raucourt-et-Flaba (E), 12 km S of Sedan, SE of of Charleville-Mézières
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse of Reims
Historical Region: Les Trois Cantons
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Limestone [cf. Palissy infra] baptismal font consisting of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with four large human heads protruding at 90-degree angles, with a leaf-like motif below the heads; on a short cylindrical pedestal base. Wooden font cover, round and flat; date unknown. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000305]: "Cuve baptismale romane à paroi verticale, cylindrique, cantonnée de quatre têtes d'angle de type cylindrique, toutes semblables les unes aux autres [...] 12e siècle [...] pierre de Givet".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.5978, 4.9106
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 35′ 52.08″ N, 4° 54′ 38.16″ E
UTM: 31U 638062 5495667
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Givet)
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 83-105 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM08000305]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]