Conteville No. 1 / Contaville (Eure)

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02922CON
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Maclou
Church Patron Saints: St. Malo (Machutus, Maclou)
Church Location: 27210 Conteville, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: Conteville [in one reference Enlart cites "Contaville"] is off the D102-D312 crossroads, between Berville-sur-Mer (NW) and Foulbec (SE), 10 kms E of Honfleur, on the S banks of the estuary [Risle river]
Historical Region: Pays de Honfleur-Beuzeville, Haute-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [Enlart], Romanesque
Church Notes: a chapel is said to have existed here in the time of Herluin [early-11thC]; a church dedicated to Saint-Maclou is documented 1712, but there are remains of the 13thC and a Romanesque font in it -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00054650]: "Nef 13e et 14e siècle ; ouvertures 15e siècle ; chevet construit ou reconstruit début 16e siècle ; tour clocher ajoutée 17e siècle ; baies agrandies 18e siècle ; restaurations de l'église en 1893 par Chalvon, architecte à Pont-Audemer".
Noted Charpillon's Dictionnaire historique de toutes les communes du département de l'Eure (Les Andelys: Chez Delcroix, 1868) vol. 1, : 836: "les fonts baptismaux son romans". Equally noted in Joanne's Dictionnaire géographique et adminisratif de la France of 1892. Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 12th-century footless tub-shaped font (octagonal) ornamented with an arcade. Listed in Palissy [ref.: IM27000755]: "Cuve simple [calcaire]; cuvette [plomb] de fonts baptismaux à deux compartiments [...] ornementation (arcature) [...] traces de peinture [...] 12e siècle". [NB: the lead insert with a partition into two compartments must be a later addition, and the inner shape of the basin is probably round beneath it].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead insert [cf. FontNotes]
Diameter (inside rim): 75 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 74 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM27000755] [NB: inside diameter and depth of the lead insert "cuvette"]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with turned knob handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

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