Goleville / Golevilla / Gollevilla / Golleville / Gollevilleon

Large Tournai-type font has a square basin with shallow sides; one side has a dragon with a coiled tail (in between the last coil and the head there is shield-like motif, but that could also be interpreted as a mask) and a head spewing flames and fumes; the other three sides all have a pattern with two rows of X-motif inserted in squares. The underbowl is made of four square levels tapering off to meet the squat base which is square, with half-columns at the angles. The whole stands on a short wide plinth. There is a cover frame cemented to the rim and a modern wooden flat cover hinged on it. Vivier & Seguin (1941) give more details of the ornamentation: the snake "vomit des flammes stylisées en volutes" and they describe the "un masque grimaçant ... diabolique" and "un arbre sommairement esquissé" which they identify as the iconography for the fall of Adam and Eve [NB: how V+S saw those two elements is difficult to fathom; the motif nearer the tail is V-shaped and the one near the head is an X in a box with a trangle below, more like a stylised shield]. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: PM50000440]: "Cuve carrée sur quatre colonnettes, et leur cuvette. Les fonts sont en pierre calcaire sculptée, et la cuvette est en plomb. Celle-ci est cloisonnée, et comporte une réserve d'eau baptismale, le couvercle de la réserve, et la piscine. La cloison entre la réserve et la piscine représente cinq arcatures trilobées, séparées par quatre pilastres en forme de contreforts. [...] Les fonts sont du 12e siècle, tandis que la cuvette est d'époque médiévale