Tarzy
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarzy_(Ardennes)_église,_éxtérieur.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tarzy (Ardennes) église, éxtérieur"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarzy_(Ardennes)_église,_éxtérieur.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - northeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tarzy (Ardennes) église, tour"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarzy_(Ardennes)_église,_tour.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tarzy (Ardennes) église, intérieur"
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 August 2012 by Havang(nl) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarzy_(Ardennes)_église,_intérieur.JPG] [accessed 8 August 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24872TAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte
Church Patron Saints: St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr] & St. Julitta
Church Location: Pl. de l'Église, 08380 Tarzy, France
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off the D34 [aka Rte. de Fligny], N of the D8043, about 30 km WNW of Charleville-Mézières
Historical Region: Le Thiérache
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late 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; ransacked 1555; re-built 1570 as "église fortifiée de Thiérache"
Font Notes:
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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.) remarks on a fragment resembling half the head of a cat with a partial palmette, built into the exterior north wall of the nave; the stone is described as "pierre bleue".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.869581, 4.295758
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 52′ 10.49″ N, 4° 17′ 44.73″ E
UTM: 31U 593113 5524935
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Mosan)
Font Shape: fragment