Croix-Saint-Leufroy / Leufroi / La Croix-Saint-Leufroy

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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angel - cherub - 8

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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angel - cherub - 8

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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angel - cherub - vegetation stemming from its mouth

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel of the pedestal base

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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design element - architectural - column - with capitals and bases - 8

Scene Description: framing the panels on the basin sides

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Paroissiale Saint-Paul La Croix Saint Leufroy"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Odenel, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2012 by Odenel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eglise_Paroissiale_Saint-Paul_La_Croix_Saint_Leufroy_02.jpg] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1898 B&W photograph by Paul Robert, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH00010452] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00010452] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the padlock securing the wooden font to the anchor in the stone basin

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Image Source: digital image of a 1939 B&W photograph by Emmanuel Louis Mas, in Mémoire [ref.: APMH0196060] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH0196060] [accessed 28 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02822CRO
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: Place de l'église, 27490 La Croix-Saint-Leufroy, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: La-Croix-St-Leufroy is located off (W) the D836, about 15 km NNE of Evreux, on the E bank of the Eure river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Évreux
Historical Region: Haute-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: baldaquin font
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00017695]: "16e siècle ; 4e quart 19e siècle ; 4e quart 19e siècle"
Enlart (1902) lists the font here as a French Renaissance baldaquin font, the basin itself octagonal. Huard (1928) describes it as a stone peduncular font of the 16th century. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM27000580]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] La cuve octogonale présente sur chacune des ses faces un bas-relief compris entre deux colonnettes que supportent des consoles se rattachant au pied. Au-dessus et au-dessous des bas-reliefs se trouvent des têtes d'anges [...] 16e siècle [...] Dimensions non prises." Noted in La Sauvegarde de l'Art Français [https://www.sauvegardeartfrancais.fr/projets/croix-saint-leufroy-la-eglise-saint-paul/] [accessed 28 July 2023] as an octagonal font of the Renaissance period ["fonts baptismaux de forme octogonale d’époque Renaissance"]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.109694, 1.239556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 6′ 34.9″ N, 1° 14′ 22.4″ E
UTM: 31U 371523 5441142

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]

REFERENCES

Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
Huard, Georges, Art en Normandie, Paris: Beaux-Arts, éditions d'études et documents, 1928