Trange / Trangé

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 02767TRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Trangé
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Gervase & St. Protase [aka Gervasius and Protasius, Gervasis and Prothasis]
Church Address: 1 Rue de la Mairie, 72650 Trangé, France
Site Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Trangé is located pff the A11, 5-6 km ENE of Le Mans.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese du Mans
Font Notes:
The illustration in Malle shows a shallow polygonal (octagonal?) basin, being practically all chamfer, decorated with a band of zig-zag all around and leaf motif under that; the base is a plain slender column and there is stumpy lower base which appears hexagonal with an upper moulding. There is a pyramidal cover of about the same height as the basin (Malle, 1994)

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.027379, 0.115685
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 1′ 38.56″ N, 0° 6′ 56.47″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: pedestal font
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal?

REFERENCES

  • Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 28