Mantes-la-Jolie No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 03207MAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ancienne collégiale Notre-Dame de Mantes-la-Jolie
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Pl. de l'Étape, 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie, France -- Tel.: +33 1 34 77 04 64
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D983A, about 50 km W of Paris. Many other fonts listed for this area.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the first chapel of the N side
Century and Period: 13th century [Enlart] / 18th century [Dictionnaire...], Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Gassicourt, Limay (a/p Enlart)
Church Notes: built 1155-1350;
Font Notes:
One of three fonts in the same style listed by Enlart (1902) [for details cf. Index entry for Gassicourt]. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ), however, dates the font at the Ancienne collégiale Notre-Dame to the 18th century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.990278, 1.720278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 59′ 25″ N, 1° 43′ 13″ E
UTM: 31U 406381 5427164

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902