Oroer / Aurouer / Orario / Oratorium / Oratorüs / Oroër / Oroir / Orouer emprez Beauvais / Oroyer
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design element - motifs - foliage
![of various types [cf. Palissy [ref.: "PM60001250]]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: of various types [cf. Palissy [ref.: "PM60001250]]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2015 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Oroër_4.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 November 2015 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Oroër_1.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chatsam, 2015
Image Source: N/Adigital photograph taken 11 November 2015 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Martin_de_Oroër_6.JPG] [accessed 25 June 2017]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 21293ORO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 60510 Oroër, France
Country Name: France
Location: Oise, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D1001 and the A16, NE of Beauvais
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Beauvais, Noyon et Senlis
Historical Region: L'Oise picarde
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Notes: Oroër believed to owe its name to a 6thC oratorium founded by St-Evrost [aka Evrou]; replaced by a church 16th-17thC; destroyed in 9thC Viking raid
Font Notes:
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Listed in Palissy [ref.: "PM60001250]: "Les fonts baptismaux sont en pierre taillée et sculptée. Ils se composent de deux éléments de pierre monolithe, la cuve et le support. La cuve à un seul bassin carré se présente sous la forme d'un chapiteau monté sur un astragale octogonale et adoptant un plan carré en partie supérieure. Le support est constitué d'un long fût octogonal sans décor particulier [...] 2e moitié 12e siècle (?) [...] Le chapiteau est sculpté de longues feuilles polylobées et nervurées dans chacun des ses angles tandis que la partie médiane de chacune de ses faces est décorée d'une feuille pointue non nervurée [...] mauvais état". Noted in Eglises de l'Oise [www.eglisesdeloise.com/monument/oroer-eglise-saint-martin/] [accessed 25 June 2017]: "cuve baptismale du 12ème siècle en forme de grand chapiteau à feuilles plates (2005)".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square-to-actagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 49 cm* [given as diameter of the octagonal base]
Trapezoidal Basin: 71 x 71 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: "PM60001250]