Amiens No. 10
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Scene Description: gives some measurements and the date of 1836 for the transfer to the museum
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24695AMI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée de Picardie, Amiens
Church/Chapel: Eglise Collégiale Saint-Nicolas [aka Saint-Nicolas-au-Cloître] [demolished ca.1784]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the museum] 2 Rue Puvis de Chavannes, 80000 Amiens, France -- Tel.: +33 3 22 97 14 00
Country Name: France
Location: Somme, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Amiens is located 160 km N of Paris. The museum is located in Amiens city centre
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: the collegial church of Saint-Nicolas, founded 1023, was one of the disappeared [demolished] medieval churches of Amiens
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1895: 34-36) refers to a design of medieval font in which a roughly hemispherical basin appears to be suspended in a quadrangular frame supported on angle colonnettes; Enalrt (ibid.) gives several examples of this design (Buleux, Fouencamps, Gentelles, Havernas, Equennes and Mirvaux, as well as five other such fonts "au musée d'Amiens". The museum inventory [Inv.M.P.1876.2114.pdf] [accessed 24 April 2023] [item 2114, p. 207] reports a baptismal font of the 12th century of the type for immersion baptism; it gives the provenance as the Eglise de Saint-Nicholas, in Amiens, and gives some measurements and the date of the transfer in 1836; according to the inventory notes [cf. ImagesArea] the church was demolished before the Revolution; the font was removed from the church ruins in 1793; transferred to the library garden in 1836
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Diameter (includes rim): 80.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Monuments réligieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région Picarde, Amiens: Yvert et Tellier, 1895