Breuil / Le Breuil nr. Marcilly-sur-Eure / Reiset-au-Breuil-Benoist
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye du Breuil-Benoît."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Giogo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2015 by Giogo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_abbaye_du_Breuil-Benoît_05.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbaye du Breuil-Benoît."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Giogo, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 1 August 2015 by Giogo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vue_abbaye_du_Breuil-Benoît_01.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancienne église: vestiges du choeur."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00033630] [accessed 6 November 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00033627] [accessed 6 November 2023]
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view of font or stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ancienne église: vestiges du déambulatoire"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN-GP, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated [pre-1928] B&W photograph by Camille Enlart, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00033631] [accessed 6 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 03086REI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise abbatiale du Breuil Benoît
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Le Breuil Benoît, 27810 Marcilly-sur-Eure, France
Country Name: France
Location: Eure, Normandie
Directions to Site: The old abbey church is located between the D143 (W) and the D116 (E), on the W bank of the Eure river, in the municipality of Marcilly-sur-Eure, about 10 km N of Dreux
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Évreux
Font Location in Church: In a private collection ca. 1902]
Century and Period: Renaissance
Church Notes: Benedictine abbey founded 1137; became Cistercian 1147; abbey church started 1190; consecrated 1224; the transepts were destroyed after the Revolution; listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00099640]: "Ancienne église abbatiale [...] 4e quart 12e siècle ; 1er quart 13e siècle"
Font Notes:
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Enlart (1902) mentions a Renaissance octagonal font in the collection of the comte de Reiset-au-Breuil-Benoist. A baptismal font from the ancient Abbaye du Breuil-Benoît is listed and illustrated in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00033627] [accessed 6 November 2023] [NB: we have no confirmation on whether the two fonts mentioned above originated in the abbey church, or whether they are one and the same]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.809, 1.35548
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 48′ 32.4″ N, 21′ 19.73″ E
UTM: 31U 379259 5407528
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902