Clisson
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02815CLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Cognate Fonts: Cosseuil (France)
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Notre Dame de Clisson
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary
Church Notes: 14th-15thC church; renovated 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA44000036]
Church Address: Place Notre Dame, 44190 Clisson, France -- Tel.: +33 2 40 54 01 62
Site Location: Loire-Atlantique, Grand-Ouest, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Clisson is located 28 km SE of Nantes on the N149 road
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30T 630455 5216319
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.087485, -1.281243
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 5′ 14.95″ N, 1° 16′ 52.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: double-font
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 65-66
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 764, foot-note 1