Gassicourt
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux sur pied moderne [...] 13e siècle fin"
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Image Source: digital image of a pre-1948 B&W photograph by Patrice Molinard [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH0183945] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mantes-la-Jolie (78), église Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantes-la-Jolie_(78),_église_Sainte-Anne_de_Gassicourt,_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of basin - detail
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design element - motifs - leaf - vine
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mantes-la-Jolie (78), église Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, fonts baptismaux"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 August 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantes-la-Jolie_(78),_église_Sainte-Anne_de_Gassicourt,_fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Sainte-Anne in Gassicourt, einem Stadtteil von Mantes-la-Jolie im Département Yvelines (Île de France)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2012
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view of font and cover in context - east side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mantes-la-Jolie (78), église Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, bas-côté sud, vue vers l'ouest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantes-la-Jolie_(78),_église_Sainte-Anne_de_Gassicourt,_bas-côté_sud,_vue_vers_l'ouest_4.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mantes-la-Jolie (78), église Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, bas-côté sud, vue vers l'est"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pierre Poschadel, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 12 August 2014 by Pierre Poschadel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mantes-la-Jolie_(78),_église_Sainte-Anne_de_Gassicourt,_bas-côté_sud,_vue_vers_l'est_2.JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 03090GAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?) [basin only], Medieval [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Mantes, Limay
Church / Chapel Name: Église Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Anne
Church Address: 11 Imp. Sainte-Anne, 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie, France -- Tel.: +33 1 30 94 23 58
Site Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The church of Gassicourt is located off (N) the D113, now a NW area of Mantes-la-Jolie (W, by the Seine river, S bank). Mantes-la-Jolie is about 30 km W of Paris
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Versailles
Additional Comments: altered font (the base is a later replacement)
Font Notes:
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Listed by Enlart (1902) as a 13th century, a "vasque polygonale oblongue, sur pied très court". The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) describes it as an octagonal font of the 13th century ornamented with large vine leaves. Listed in Palissy [reg.: PM78000795]: "Fonts baptismaux sur pied moderne [...] nef [...] 13e siècle [...] Taille de pierre [...] H = 102 ; la = 107". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: APMH0183945, AP78W01793]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 404758 5428522
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.002246, 1.697779
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 0′ 8.09″ N, 1° 41′ 52″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 107 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base with raised scroll ribs
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, IV D 101
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 767 footnote 1; p. 776 footnote 1
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.
- France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
- Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985, p. 368