Saint-Germain-des-Vaux / St-Germain-des-Vaux

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design element - architectural - columsn - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: the central shat is by contrast plain

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design element - motifs - leaf - oak

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design element - motifs - round moulding

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux et leur couvercle, vue générale"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03252GER
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-les-Vaux [aka Eglise saint Germain à la Rouelle, Saint-Germain-des-Vaux]
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: 50440 La Hague, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Saint-Germain-des-Vaux is located off (S) the D45, 28 km W of Cherbourg, right at the tip of the Cap-de-la-Hague
Historical Region: Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century (?), Medieval
Church Notes: church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110569]: "13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 17e siècle ; 19e siècle"
Square (rectangular?) basin mounted on a five-column base and a square (rectangular?) plinth. The basin has plain upper and lower rims; in between, the basin sides are ornamented with large leaf motif (oak leaves?). The base has a plain cylindrical column in the centre and a slender colonnette at each angle, the latter with astragals and bases and a tore about 2/3 up. Vivier-Seguin (1941) report that the flaky limestone has been given with a yellow paint or coating (Vivier, 1941). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50000973]: "Fonts baptismaux et leur couvercle [...] Fonts en pierre à cuve carrée, sur support central avec quatre colonnettes auxiliaires. Le couvercle est en bois [...] H = 87,5 ; la = 61,5 ; pr = 59 (Dimensions des fonts) ; Dimensions du couvercle : h = 83,5, la = 65 [...] 13e siècle ; 14e siècle ; 18e siècle [...] Nef, angle sud-ouest [...] Le décor de ces fonts semble typique de la fin du 13e siècle et du début du 14e siècle. Le couvercle est quant à lui du 18e siècle." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP50W01784]. A 16th-century holy-water stoup originally from the older church is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50009316]: "Bénitier probablement daté du 16e siècle, provenant de la vieille église [...] L = 74 ; la = 45 [...] 16e siècle". The entry for this church in Wikimanche [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Église_Saint-Germain_(Saint-Germain-des-Vaux)] [accessed 23 March 2025] mentions that the font may have originated in a disappeared church lost to the sea: "Elle abrite des fonts baptismaux qui proviendraient d'une église située sur le littoral de l'anse Saint-Martin, disparue dans la mer au lieu-dit de la Vieille-Église'.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.707922, -1.908931
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 42′ 28.52″ N, 1° 54′ 32.15″ W
UTM: 30U 578666 5506728

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 87.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 59 x 61.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th century
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: square pyramidal with ball finial [cf. FontNotes for measurements]

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-23 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2025-03-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941