Villers-sur-le-Mont

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human figure - head

Scene Description: "Fragments qui proviendraient de la cuve baptismale de l'église détruite d'Yvernaumont." [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [20220800114] in Mémoire [ref.: OA008_20220800114] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA008_20220800114] [accessed 7 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Villers-sur-le-Mont (Ardennes) église, vue latérale"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villers-sur-le-Mont_(Ardennes)_église,_vue_latérale.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Villers-sur-le-Mont (Ardennes) église, façade"

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Villers-sur-le-Mont_(Ardennes)_église,_façade.JPG] [accessed 7 August 2023]

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view of fragment

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of fragment

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of fragment

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of fragment

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24863VIL
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Boniface de Villers-sur-le-Mont
Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]
Church Location: 1 Pl. Saint-Boniface, 08430 Villers-sur-le-Mont, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D66, E of highway R46/A34, 2 km SE of Yvernaumont, 12-13 km SW of Charleville-M
Historical Region: Les Crêtes Préardennaises
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing these objects to our attention and for his help in documenting them
Fragments of a 12th-century baptismal font, three of which are now built into the walls of this church, listed in Palissy [ref.: PM08001279] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM08001279] [accessed 7 August 2023]: "Fragments provenant d'une cuve baptismale romane : trois fragments remployés dans le mur extérieur nord (Choeur, mur est, autel latéral nord ; extérieur, mur nord, côté ouest); quatrième fragment présent dans l'église [...] Fragments qui représentent tous des têtes humaines, probablement situées à l'origine dans les angles de la cuve baptismale [...] 12e siècle [...] H = 33,5 (fragment de l'intérieur) [...] Fragments qui proviendraient de la cuve baptismale de l'église détruite d'Yvernaumont." The extant fragment is illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: OA008_20220800114] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA008_20220800114] [accessed 7 August 2023]. [NB: the entry for this village in Les Crêtes Préardennaises [https://www.cretespreardennaises.fr/directory/entry/yvernaumont.html] [accessed 7 August 2023] reports "ni église, ni cimetière"; was there ever a church in it?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.664666, 4.67994
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 39′ 52.8″ N, 4° 40′ 47.78″ E
UTM: 31U 621229 5502703

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: fragment