Lessay

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay"

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lessay (Manche) - Abbatiale de la Sainte-Trinité"

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay" -- the present font in use is modern

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Lessay Chapelle du croisillon Sud" -- the modern font in a south transept chapel

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02809LES
Church/Chapel: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité / Ancienne église abbatiale, devenue église paroissiale
Church Patron Saints: Holy Trinity
Church Location: 50430 Lessay, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Lessay is 21 km N of Coutances on the D2 road, direction Cherbourg
Font Location in Church: Inside the abbey church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [Enlart] / 16th - 17th [Vivier-Seguin], Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font [Enlart]
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110438]: "L'église date du 11e siècle. Les bâtiments conventuels sont du 17e siècle."
Included by Enlart (1902) in a list of French double-fonts. Vivier-Seguin (1941) report and illustrate this font as having a polygonal basin (no mention of double basin or font, but they do say that it appears to have been mutilated); the basin is supported on eight "demi-consoles" with curling foliage stylised into rib-like bulges; the whole rests on a crude "socle" (plinth) which V-S suspect may have been totally buried earlier on (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.22, -1.532778
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 13′ 12″ N, 1° 31′ 58″ W
UTM: 30U 606841 5452949

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941