Bonnieres / Bonnières

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02853BON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font
Cognate Fonts: Montdidier, Busy, Lesquielles Saint-Germain, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale de la Nativité-de-la-Vierge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Nativity of St. Mary
Church Address: 43 Rue Georges Herrewyn, 78270 Bonnières-sur-Seine, France -- Tel.: +33 1 30 42 09 55
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the N13, bout 15 km W of Mantes-la-Jolie, 25 km E of Evreux [NB: Enlart locates it in Pas-de-Calais, simply as "Bonnières", which is a place there with a church destroyed in WWI and later re-built]
Font Notes:
Included by Cloquet among the Tournai fonts with a 5-support base (Cloquet, 1895). Enlart (1902) dates it 13th century.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 396266 5432629
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.037803, 1.580657
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 2′ 16.09″ N, 1° 34′ 50.36″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: Probably a centre hole as in most of the fonts of this type.

REFERENCES

  • Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 320