Millieres / Milleres / Millières

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design element - architectural - arch or window - round - 24

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 May 2003 by Momo50 [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Fichier:Eglise_de_Millieres-50_Font-baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 24

Scene Description: six on each side
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design element - motifs - moulding - 4

Scene Description: serving as base of the four outer colonnettes of the base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 30 May 2003 by Momo50 [https://www.wikimanche.fr/Fichier:Eglise_de_Millieres-50_Font-baptismaux.jpg] [accessed 13 February 2022]
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symbol - cross - Greek - 16

Scene Description: in the centre of each panel, between the Latin crosses
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symbol - cross - Latin - on a step - two steps - 8

Scene Description: two on each side, at the extremes
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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Millières (Manche)" -- the earlier church was destroyed in WWII; re-built 1959-1961
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 April 2019 by Xfigpower [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Étienne_de_Millières_(2).jpg] [accessed 13 February 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Millières, Manche" -- the earlier church was destroyed in WWII; re-built 1959-1961
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xfigpower, 2019
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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: Source caption: "Millières, Manche"
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fonts baptismaux restaurés de l'église Saint-Étienne de Millières récupérés dans l'ancienne église détruite en 1944."
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INFORMATION

FontID: 03259MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Etienne de Millières
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Rue du Moulin, 50190 Millières, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Millières is located off the D794-D431 crossroads, just W of Périers, 18 km N of Coutances.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Gonfreville, Muneville-le-Bingard
Church Notes: 16thC church in ruins, "entièrement détruite par l'artillerie américaine lors des combats pour la libération de la commune entre le 26 et 28 juillet 1944"; re-built 1959-1961
Font Notes:
This font is square, mounted on a five-column base and very similar to the font at Lastelle but, as Vivier-Seguin (1941) point out, more elegant, as is evident on the sophisticated leaf capitals of the base colonnettes; the latter are detached from the central pedestal giving the whole a lighter and more elegant appearance, and the more proportionate measurements which "donnent à l'ensemble plus de légèreté" (Vivier, 1941). There are six round arches or windows on each side, each with a cross inscribed; the two outer windows in each panel have a Latin cross on a two-step base, while the four windows between them have floating Greek crosses; above each spandrel of the 'arcade' is a rosette [NB: could [some?] of these symbols and motifs a later re-carving?]; the underbowl has leaf motifs at the angles serving as capiatls to the four outer colonnettes of the base; these colonnettes have moulded bases. The wooden font cover is modern, a low octagonal pyramid on a a square platform; Latin cross finial, also of wood.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.18807, -1.46161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 11′ 17.05″ N, 1° 27′ 41.8″ W
UTM: 30U 612096 5449502

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FonNotes]

REFERENCES

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