Ponts nr. Avranches

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - 8 - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: on very substantial moulded columns

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 March 2014 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_de_Ponts_-_Fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne de Ponts. Vue sud-ouest"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 13 February 2019 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_de_Ponts._Vue_sud-ouest.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nef de l'église Saint-Étienne de Ponts"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChBougui, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 15 July 2016 by ChBougui [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nef_de_l'église_Saint-Étienne_de_Ponts.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne de Ponts - Nef vue depuis le choeur"

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 March 2014 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_de_Ponts_-_Nef_vue_depuis_le_choeur.JPG] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the canopy-like frames above the arch-heads proper

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Image Source: digital photograph 16 March 2014 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_de_Ponts_-_Fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2025

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W02496] [accessed 28 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02770PON
Church/Chapel: Église paroissiale Saint-Étienne de Ponts?
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen?
Church Location: 50300 Ponts, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located 3.5 km N of Avranches, 11 km SE of Sartilly, 15 km W of Brécey, 19 km SW of Villedieu-les-Poêles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Gothic
Malle dates the font at Ponts to the 15th-16th century; it is quasi-cylindrical, fashioned after some early Norman fonts. At the top of the basin sides there is a wide plain band; below it, and all the way to the bottom of the font, eight (?) Gothic arches with prominent capitals (description based on ill. in Malle, 1994). A font matching that description is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50000859] [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM50000859] [accessed 28 February 2025]: "Église paroissiale Saint-Etienne [...] Fonts baptismaux [...] angle nord-ouest [...] 13e siècle [...] Ces fonts reposent sur une base octogonale passant au cercle, ornée de huit arcatures sculptées. La cuve est garnie d'ogives [...] H = 101 ; d = 82"; illustrated in Mémoire [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W02496] [accessed 28 February 2025] [NB: the base is octagonal and very short]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.698334, -1.347032
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 41′ 54″ N, 1° 20′ 49.31″ W
UTM: 30U 621629 5395240

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 82 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 101 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood?,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-02-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-02-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994