Sapogne-et-Feucheres / Sapogne-et-Feuchères

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the font still at the former rectory garden in 2014 (?) -- one of the damaged heads and partial view of two sides

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image by Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/wasigny-faire-parler-la-pierre] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the font still at the former rectory garden in 2014 (?), being used as planter

Image Source: edited detail of a digital image by Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/wasigny-faire-parler-la-pierre] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2015 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sapogne-et-Feuchères-FR-08-église-01.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2007 by Livius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sapogne08.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font as displayed in the former rectory garden [presbytère] at the time [ca. 1958?]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [taken ca. 1958?] in Palissy [ref.: PM08000491] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1373/sap83_08w00751_p.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font as displayed in the former rectory garden [presbytère] at the time [ca. 1958?]

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [taken ca. 1958?] in Palissy [ref.: PM08000491] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1373/sap83_08w00752_p.jpg] [accessed 11 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20610SAP

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: 08160 Sapogne-et-Feuchères, France

Country Name: France

Location: Ardennes, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located off the D12, 14 km SE of Charleville-Mézières

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims

Historical Region: Pays des Sources au Val de Bar

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ardennes group of Mosan fonts [Collin]

Church Notes: original church at Sapogne perhaps 11th-12thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Railliet (1964) cites the basin of a baptismal font found in the vicarage garden, and gives his source as Etudes Ardennaises, no. 14, p. 32. Ghislain (2005-2006) writes of a baptismal font being used as garden ornament in the garden of the former rectory at Sapogne-et-Feuchères; it consists of two parts: a bluish limestone basin of tapering round shape, with four human heads protruding at 90-degree angles; on the sides between the heads are foliage decorations, among them a palm-like pattern, an acanthus vine bearing fruit, palmette circles, etc.; the heads are damaged; raised on a roughly cylindrical pedestal base that is likely not the original. No font cover present. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM08000491]: "Cuve baptismale de type roman, ronde, décorée sur le pourtour de quatre masques humains et d'une frise de palmettes et de ceps de vigne [...] lieu de provenance : Champagne-Ardenne, 08, Saint-Quentin-le-Petit, abbaye cistercienne de La Valroy [...] 12e siècle"; the Palissy entry (ibid.) refers to Collignon [cf. infra, and to Ghislain [cf. supra]. ***[NB: THE PALISSY ENTRY MIXES TWO FONTS: THE ONE AT SAPOGNE... AND THE ONE FROM VALROY -- THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT FONTS -- cf. Index entry for the Valtoy font under Saint-Quentin-le-Petit]. Jean-Luc Collignon [http://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.net/wasigny-faire-parler-la-pierre] [accessed 11 June 2016] reports that the old font here was replaced by a new neo-Gothic font and relegated to the garden of the former rectory [presbytère]; in 1969 the then parish priest, M. Laurent, had it moved to the porch of the church but, when the rectory was sold its new owner claimed ownership of the old font and put it back in the former rectory garden as a planter. Collignon (ibid.) further notes that the font was photographed by JC. Ghislain, who recommended its removal to the church.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 629643 5502467

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre de Givet)

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM08000491]

REFERENCES

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "Les fonts romans en pierre bleues de Belgique et leur diffusion en France aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles", Liège, 2005-2006

Railliet, Georges, "Less fonts baptismaux de l'Eglise collégiale Saint-Laurent de Rozoy-sur-Serre (Aisne)", Sur nos fonts baptismaux romans. Symbolique et Sauvegarde, Reims: Imp. Matot-Braine, 1964