Monastier / Le Monestier

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02800MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale
Church Address: 63890 Le Monestier, France
Site Location: Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 3 km from Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, 7 km from Ambert, in the Parc du Livradois-Forez, an hour from Clermont-Ferrand
Font Notes:
Included by Enlart (1902) in a list of French double-fonts and later as a font of difficult dating [NB: not the same as the ones entered under "Le Monetier-les-Bains" in the Hautes-Alpes dept.]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 551724 5045787
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.5637, 3.6628
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 33′ 49.32″ N, 3° 39′ 46.08″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: double-font
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 764 footnote 1
  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 775 footnote 1