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human figure - head

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 24871ANN
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Sulpice
Church Patron Saints: St. Sulpicius [aka Sulpitius]
Church Location: 16 Grande Rue, 08310 Annelles, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D25 [aka Grande Rue], 11 km SE of Rethel
Historical Region: Le Pays Rethélois
Font Location in Church: The fragment is now inside the church, in the narthex-like area
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: 12thC(?) church destroyed in June 1940 bombings; partly re-built 1960 retaining the 12thC(?) tower;
A fragment of medieval sculpture was noted and illustrated on the 16 February 2014 entry for this church in Jean-Luc Collignon's Débris cachés d'un trésor roman en trois actes [https://jeanluccollignon.blog4ever.com/eglises-ardennaises] [accessed 8 August 2023]: Collignon (ibid.) notes that inside the partly re-built narthex-like area inside there is a niche displaying the carving of a human head, which he found resembling another suche head built into the outer west wall at Chuffilly-Roche [cf. BSI entry].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.428611, 4.42
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 25′ 43″ N, 4° 25′ 12″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Mosan)
Font Shape: fragment