Avant-les-Marcilly / Avant-lès-Marcilly
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2003 by Delphine Mercier and Elise Ernest in Mémoire [NUMI 031010561NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1886/oa010_031010561nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 9 May 2008 by Guerin-loury [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Avant_les_Marcilly.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la culture, Conseil régional de Champagne-Ardenne, Conseil général de l'Aube, 2003
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 2003 by Delphine Mercier and Elise Ernest in Mémoire [NUMI 031010561NUCA] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1886/oa010_031010561nuca_p.jpg] [accessed 14 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20612AVA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de l'Assomption de la Sainte Vierge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church
Church Address: 10400 Avant-lès-Marcilly, France
Site Location: Aube, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the D52, 10 km SE of Nogent-sur-Seine, 32 SE of Provins, 40 NW of Troyes
Additional Comments: composite font (the surviving part of a late-12thC basin atop which has been built a 19thC basin)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of stone made of a fragment of an old [late-12th century?] font into which was inserted a 19th-century basin; the old base has some foliage motifs on the sides. There is modern wooden font cover, round, flat and plain. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM10005796], and illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA010_031010561]: " fonts baptismaux [ calcaire] [...] Deux cuves superposées : une cuve moderne (19e s.), taillée dans une pierre grossière et poreuse, est posée sur une cuve ancienne (fin 12e s.) en calcaire. Le couvercle de la cuve moderne est en bois. La cuve ancienne, assez basse, comporte une base à griffes. Il s'agit peut être d'une ancienne cuve à immersion [...] 19e siècle ; 2e moitié 12e siècle".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 542229 5363541
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; hinged in the middle; modern
REFERENCES
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- 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.