Warcq / Valacram / Walacre
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: forming capital-like corners on the underbowl
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Warcq (Ardennes) église, portail"
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Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warcq_(Ardennes)_église,_portail.JPG] [accessed 21 September 2021]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Warcq (Ardennes) église, de droite"
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Image Source: digital photograph 30 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warcq_(Ardennes)_église,_de_droite.JPG] [accessed 21 September 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Warcq (Ardennes, France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francis Neuvens, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 July 2009 by Francis Neuvens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warcq_(08_Ardennes)_-_l’Eglise_Saint_Jean-Baptiste_-_Photo_Francis_Neuvens_lesardennesvuesdusol.fotoloft.fr.JPG] [accessed 21 September 2021]
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design element - motifs - leaf - 4
Scene Description: a broad leaf at each corner of the lower base
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: a broad one forms the lower base
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a single moulding all around the middle of the stem
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Image Source: digital image [IM08009293] of a photograph in the Inventaire Général du Patrimoine Culturel / Champagne-Ardennes / Ardennes / Warcq / Eglise paroissiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23454WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / Mosan type?
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Warcq
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078547]: "Siècle de la campagne principale de construction: 14e siècle, 15e siècle, 17e siècle"
Church Address: 7 rue de la République, 08000 Warcq, France
Site Location: Ardennes, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of roads D9, D16, D39 and D309, 2 km W of Charleville-Mézières, about 70 km NE of Reims
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims
Historical Region: Champagne-Ardenne / Comté de Chiny / Ancien doyenné de Launois
Font Notes:
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Square table-top baptismal font of the transitional type between the earlier ones with five column supports and the later ones with a single broad shaft in the centre, but the design still retains capital-like motifs in the corners of the underbowl. Wooden cover, square, flat and plain.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.7695, 4.6814
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 46′ 10.2″ N, 4° 40′ 53.04″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes