Valenciennes No. 1
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - facing each other - passant-regardant - 2
Scene Description: seen here in the upper half of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud Tixador / TGI, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Arnaud Tixador's Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI (2015)
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant
Scene Description: seen here in the lower half of the image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud Tixador / TGI, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Arnaud Tixador's Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI (2015)
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view of basin - fragment
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
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view of information
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud Tixador / TGI, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Arnaud Tixador's Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI (2015)
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view of information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud Tixador / TGI, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Arnaud Tixador's Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI (2015)
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view of information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaud Tixador / TGI, 2015
Image Source: digital image of content in Arnaud Tixador's Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI (2015)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25108VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Ancienne collégiale Notre-Dame à Valenciennes? [demolished 1810]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the present church] Pl. Abbé Thellier de Poncheville, 59300 Valenciennes, France -- Tel.: +33 3 27 27 20 08
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located 45 km from Lille, about 50 km NE of Cambrai. The church is located inside the ring road, in the SE area of the historic centre of town
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Cambrai
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font. We are also grateful to Arnaud Tixador and to Jean-Claude Ghislain for sharing the PDF of the PWP slides
Church Notes: church donated in 1086 to the Benedictine Abbey of Hasnon; consecrated 1149; destroyed 1798; demolished 1810 -- present church, the Basilique Notre-Dame-du-Saint-Cordon, built 1852-1864 is listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA59000004 [archive]
Font Notes:
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A fragment of a baptismal font is reported discovered in the TGI report by Arnaud Tixador in Quelques éléments sculptés découverts sur le site du TGI [cf. ImagesArea]: "un élément liturgique (seconde moitié du XIIe s.) : fragment correspondant +/- au quart de fonts baptismaux en calcaire carbonifère (Tournai, Soignies?), portant des réprésentations d'animaux fantastiques (dragons/hippocampes) [...] Ces sculptures proviennent, très probablement, des remblais des démolitions de la collégiale ND-la-Grande (démolie en 1810), ou de l'église Saint-Vaast toutes proches." The surviving fragment appears to be of the black-blueish limestone characteristi of the Tournai workshops; it shows partial views of two sides of a square table-top- type baptismal font: one has a pair facing passant-regardant dragons; the other a dragon passant.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3555, 3.5261
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 21′ 19.8″ N, 3° 31′ 33.96″ E
UTM: 31U 537425 5578290
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: [fragment]