Granville No. 1

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design element - motifs - X motif

Scene Description: Malle and Vivier-Seguin identify it as a saltire cross, symbol for St. Andrew [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated

Scene Description: at two levels on the underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - panel - rectangular - 8

Scene Description: two on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 17 June 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02991GRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame du Cap Lihou

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 50400 Granville, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Granville is 30 kms SW of Coutances, right at the seaside.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches

Historical Region: Pays de Granville-Villedieu, Basse-Normandie

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, near the entrance, now serving as holy water stoup

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance

Cognate Fonts: Guimiliau, Fresnoy, etc.

Church Notes: original church of granite built in Cap Lihou 12thC; present church 14th, 17th, 18thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110418]

Font Notes: Click to view

Enlart (1902) describes this as a Renaissance square font mounted on a five-column base; his description, however, matches neither of the two fonts in the church at Granville. It probably refers to the same font illustrated by Malle (1994) and described by the latter as "ancienne cuve baptismale [...] servant de bénitier". [Our on-site visit rendered a font with a square basin adorned with two blind rectangles on each of the sides; the chamfer has two levels: the upper shows a row of leaves; the lower has the same floral motif upside-down repeated all around. The pedestal base has a square plant and is decorated with carved vertical "X" motif with a ring where the arms of the "X" meet]. Vivier-Seguin's (1941) depict the same font and point out the St. Andrew's cross and fleur-de-lis patterns of the base; they describe the base as being two blocks one on top of the other (Vivier, 1941)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.836472, -1.605472

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 50′ 11.3″ N, 1° 36′ 19.7″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: *The inside of the basin well has been re-cemented at a later date and the drain covered

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 60 x 61 cm

Basin Depth: 23 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 20 cm

Basin Total Height: 46 cm

Height of Base: 60 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 37 x 39 cm

Trapezoidal Basin: 77 x 78 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI. [* The depth of the basin may have been altered when the well was re-cemented (see also drain notes)]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: Evidence of the original hinges still on the upper basin rim

REFERENCES

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

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941