Saint-Ovin
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03225OVI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Ouen de Saint-Ovin
Font Location in Church: In its own baptistery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Address: Rue du Bocage, 50300 Saint-Ovin, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D5, in the municipality and 8-10 km E of Avranches.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Notes:
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Malle's illustration shows a plain octagonal mounted font with a plain wooden cover; behind it, "sa réserve de Sainte-Chrême" (Malle, 1994). Vivier and Seguin (Vivier, 1941) describe the font as octagonal, though the angle sides are smaller than the front-back-sides; they describe several levels of mouldings and the font is chalice-shaped; the wooden cover illustrated in this source, dated 1941, is pyramidal, but may have later been replaced with the flat one shown in Malle in 1994.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.68231, -1.26272
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 40′ 56.32″ N, 1° 15′ 45.79″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994, ill. and caption on p. 82
- Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 89