Behurad / Béhuard
Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
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Results: 8 records
design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: on the sides of the pedestal base, at the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2014 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290066_49_Behuard_eglise_ND_benitier_rwk.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2014 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290066_49_Behuard_eglise_ND_benitier_rwk.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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design element - motifs - round moulding
Scene Description: all around below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2014 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290066_49_Behuard_eglise_ND_benitier_rwk.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: on the sides of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2014 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290066_49_Behuard_eglise_ND_benitier_rwk.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame, Béhuard, France"
Copyright Statement: image copyright © Mattana, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2011 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Béhuard,_Église_Notre-Dame_02.JPG] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Intérieur de l'église Notre-Dame de Béhuard (49)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GO69, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2018 by GO69 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Béhuard_(44)_Église_Notre-Dame_-_Intérieur_-_01.jpg] [accessed 1 March 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/AP49W03253] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Béhuard, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. Fonts-baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mbzt, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2014 by Mbzt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1290066_49_Behuard_eglise_ND_benitier_rwk.jpg] [accessed 1 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02811BEH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise Notre-Dame de Béhuard
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary
Church Location: 1 Pl. de l'Église, 49170 Béhuard, France -- Tel.: +33 2 41 72 21 15
Country Name: France
Location: Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire
Directions to Site: Behuard is a small vilage of only 100 inhabitants, just 15 km S of Angers and 10 km from St-Georges-sur-Loire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Angers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 15th century (?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00108973]
Font Notes:
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Included by Enlart in a list of French double-fonts (Enlart, 1902). Font listed in Palissy [ref.: PM49000441]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] 15e siècle [...] Montés sur un pied octogonal et munis en contrefort d'une piscine, ils sont recouverts d'un couvercle de bois à serrure à vertevelle [...] H = 70 ; la = 55 (largeur de la cuve)."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.3798, -0.6434
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 22′ 47.28″ N, 0° 38′ 36.24″ W
UTM: 30T 677884 5250064
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 55 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.