Saint-Germain-sur-Ay / St-Germain-sur-Ay
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B01: design element - patterns - fluted
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Guillaume Ernouf [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonds_baptismaux_photo_2_._Saint_Germain_sur_Ay_._ERNOUF_Guillaume.JPG] [accessed 21 November 2011]
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B02: design element - patterns - piping
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2008 by Guillaume Ernouf [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonds_baptismaux_photo_2_._Saint_Germain_sur_Ay_._ERNOUF_Guillaume.JPG] [accessed 21 November 2011]
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view of church exterior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 March 2011 by Guillaume Ernouf [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Eglise_de_Saint-Germain-sur-Ay_de_nuit_ERNOUF_Guillaume.jpg] [accessed 21 November 2011]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 June 2010 by Saint Germinais [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Fonds_Baptismaux_m%C3%A9di%C3%A9vaux_Eglise_de_Saint_Germain_sur_Ay_ERNOUF_Guillaume.JPG] [accessed 21 November 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03253GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Lessay, near Créances and Bretteville-sur-Ay, in the W of the Manche dept.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Muneville-le-Bingard, though the base and proportions are different
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Vivier-Seguin (1941) as a massive square mounted font, though rather squat which, according to V-S, was compensated in the past by the presence of a pyramidal cover, now [1941], unfortunately, replaced by a flat one; the basin is square, not very tall, its sides carved with piping and fluting patterns [NB: presumably the patterns are replicated on the third and fourth sides]; the central column of the base is broad and short, the four corner colonnettes -one is broken, later replaced- are of the same height but slender and with plain capitals and bases; the whole rests on a square plinth. The present cover is square and flat, made of wood, with moulded sides; appears modern. The font is inventoried in the Palissy database [Référence: PM50000979] as Romanesque and made of limestone.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.235167, -1.595139
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 14′ 6.6″ N, 1° 35′ 42.5″ W
UTM: 30U 602480 5454626
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 84 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 82 x 82 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p Palissy entry [cf. FontNotes]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941