Villebout

Enlart (1902) dates it to the 16th century but comments that it "pourrait très facilement être prise pour une oeuvre du XIIe siècle", as an example of fonts that are difficult to date. The same date is assigned by the entry in La Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français [https://www.sauvegardeartfrancais.fr/projets/villebout-eglise-saint-jean-baptiste/] [accessed 8 March 2025]: "L’intérieur conserve une belle cuve baptismale ornée d’écailles et de masques du XVIe s." The basin could never be thought of as 12th-century -easily or otherwise- despite Enlart's comment [cf. supra]; it has a quatrefoiled shape inside and out, the four outer heads set at 90-degree angles at the indented corners; the decorative patterns between the heads would probably fit rather in a late-Renaissance style, as would the panelled square pedestal base.