Auvers

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [Tirage photographique No. 50W00253],in Mémoire [ref.: AP50W00253] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W00253] [accesed 4 August 2022]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne d'Auvers"
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Image Source: digital photograph 28 September 2011 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_d'Auvers_-_Fonts_baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 4 August 2022]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - columns - columns with capitals and bases - 13

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne d'Auvers"
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Étienne d'Auvers"
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03248AUV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Portchester?
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Sainte-Étienne d'Auvers
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: 13thC church; modified 14th, 19thC -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110323]: "La nef, le transept et le choeur datent des 13e et 14e siècles. Quelques compléments ont été ajoutés aux 15e et 16e siècles. La sacristie et le décor sont du 19e siècle."
Church Address: 33 rue de l'Eglise, 50500 Auvers, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D903 [aka Le Grand Chemin], 6-7 km W of Carentan-les-Marais, 55-60 km W of Bayeux, about the same distance SE of Cherbourg.
Historical Region: Basse-Normandie
Font Notes:
Base-less cylindrical font has blind arcade of 13 arches and two roll mouldings in high relief around the basin sides. Vivier-Seguin (1941) mention that its similarity with some English fonts has been raised, specifically with the one at Portchester; they also make reference to De Lasteyrie's analogy to the Verneuil ornamentation. Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50000034] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/palissy/PM50000034] [accessed 4 August 2022]: "Fonts baptismaux (cuve baptismale) [...] Calcaire [...] H = 84" [...] 12e siècle". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP50W00253] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP50W00253] [accesed 4 August 2022]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 622055 5462074
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.299211, -1.321158
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 17′ 57.16″ N, 1° 19′ 16.17″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: cylindrical, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: PM50000034]

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: low dome with Latin finial

REFERENCES

  • Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 21