Clisson

INFORMATION

FontID: 02815CLI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Notre Dame de Clisson

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary

Church Location: Place Notre Dame, 44190 Clisson, France -- Tel.: +33 2 40 54 01 62

Country Name: France

Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest

Directions to Site: Clisson is located 28 km SE of Nantes on the N149 road

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font

Cognate Fonts: Cosseuil (France)

Church Notes: 14th-15thC church; renovated 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA44000036]

Font Notes: Click to view

Included by Enlart (1902: 764n) in a list of French Renaissance double-fonts. Listed in Bond (1908: 65-66) as a font having a "little cup-shaped hollow" projecting from the rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.087485, -1.281243

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 5′ 14.95″ N, 1° 16′ 52.48″ W

UTM: 30T 630455 5216319

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: (double-font)

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902