Orbais-l'Abbaye
Image copyright © Amassychamp, 2014
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Results: 13 records
design element - motifs - handle - ring handle - 4
Scene Description: set at 90-degree angles below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP72P00811] [accessed 4 October 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element or symbol - unidentified
Scene Description: between the shells
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP51W02627] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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human figure?
Scene Description: many of them at two levels on the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP51W02627] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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symbol - shell
Scene Description: several
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP51W02627] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Orbais-l'Abbaye - Abbatiale"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MOSSOT, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2003 by MOSSOT [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orbais-l'Abbaye_-_Abbatiale_-1.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbatiale Saint-Pierre d'Orbais-l'Abbaye."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amassychamp, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 February 2014 by Amassychamp [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloche_Orbais_01.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Planche gravée du 17ème siècle représentant l'abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais, dans le livre Monasticon Gallicanum."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 17thC engraving in Michel Germain's Monasticon Gallicanum [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_st-Pierre_dOrbais.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-100-expired / PD-Art (PD-old-100-expired)
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krhome, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 August 2020 by Krhome [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Saint-Pierre_d'Orbais_2.jpg] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP51W02627] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of a 1972 B&W photograph by Jean Gourbeix, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP72P00811] [accessed 4 October 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbatiale Saint-Pierre d'Orbais, fonts baptismaux en fonte de fer du XVIe siècle."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amassychamp, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 8 February 2014 by Amassychamp [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cloche_Orbais_abbaye.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of font
![the somewhat similar font being auctioned off in the Gazette Drouot, N°34. 29 septembre 2023 [cf. FontNotes]: "Cuve baptismale en fonte de fer reposant sur quatre pieds griffes et ornée d'un décor de dix-huit mascarons. Prises annelées latérales (manque une). Champagne, vers 1500. H.40 cm Diam.62 cm Petits accidents, manques et oxydation. Un modèle comparable classé au titre du patrimoine mobilier se trouve dans l'église d'Orbais -l'abbaye ( Marne)."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the somewhat similar font being auctioned off in the Gazette Drouot, N°34. 29 septembre 2023 [cf. FontNotes]: "Cuve baptismale en fonte de fer reposant sur quatre pieds griffes et ornée d'un décor de dix-huit mascarons. Prises annelées latérales (manque une). Champagne, vers 1500. H.40 cm Diam.62 cm Petits accidents, manques et oxydation. Un modèle comparable classé au titre du patrimoine mobilier se trouve dans l'église d'Orbais -l'abbaye ( Marne)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gazette Drouot, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in the Gazette Drouot, N°34. 29 septembre 2023 [https://www.gazette-drouot.com/lots/17151808-cuve-baptismale-en-fonte-de---] [accessed 4 October 2023]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbatiale Saint-Pierre d'Orbais-l'Abbaye."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amassychamp, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 8 February 2014 by Amassychamp [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbaye_Orbais_03.JPG] [accessed 4 October 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 24971ORB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: 4 Pl. des Tilleuls, 51270 Orbais-l'Abbaye, France
Country Name: France
Location: Marne, Grand Est
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the D11, 9 km WNE of Montmort-Lucy, about 22 km WSW of Epernay
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Reims
Historical Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th century
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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: Benedictine abbey founded late-7thC; church of St. Peter & St. Paul 12th-13thC -- an ancient church, "paroissiale Saint-Prix" existed here but has disappeared -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00078755]: "Eglise abbatiale [...] 13e siècle"
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM51001268]: Fonts baptismaux [...] cuve [...] Fonte de fer [...] 16e siècle [...] D = 60 [...] Transept, bras sud". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP51W02627 and AP72P00811]. The large cast iron basin is roughly bucket-shaped and of a design more commonly found in holy-water stoups, although this one is quite large, with a 60 cm diameter at the upper rim; it rest on four(?) stumpy legs; it has four loops on the sides with hanging rings, as if it was intended to be moved often; it has large shell motifs decorating the side below the rim, and some other motif or symbol as well; the sides of the basin are decorated with many tiny human figures(?) standing between thin mouldings. No cover present.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 18 November 2022) informs of an auction sale advertised in the Gazette Drouot, N°34. 29 septembre 2023 [https://www.gazette-drouot.com/lots/17151808-cuve-baptismale-en-fonte-de---] [accessed 4 October 2023] for a similar font: "dans l'église d'Orbais -l'abbaye ( Marne)", but it does not release the provenance of the one for sale.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.950588, 3.700791
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 57′ 2.12″ N, 3° 42′ 2.85″ E
UTM: 31U 551308 5422200
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, iron (cast iron)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 60 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM51001268]