Bonnieres / Bonnières

INFORMATION

FontID: 02853BON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale de la Nativité-de-la-Vierge

Church Patron Saints: The Nativity of St. Mary

Church Location: 43 Rue Georges Herrewyn, 78270 Bonnières-sur-Seine, France -- Tel.: +33 1 30 42 09 55

Country Name: France

Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France

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 Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Tournai font

Cognate Fonts: Montdidier, Busy, Lesquielles Saint-Germain, etc.

Font Notes: Click to view

Included by Cloquet among the Tournai fonts with a 5-support base (Cloquet, 1895). Enlart (1902) dates it 13th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.037803, 1.580657

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 2′ 16.09″ N, 1° 34′ 50.36″ E

UTM: 31U 396266 5432629

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