Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard / St-Germain-le-Gaillard
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design element - architectural - capital - 4
Scene Description: much eroded now but still showing some foliage motifs and a round moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the base of the shafts
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église fr:Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard (Manche)"
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard - Fonts baptismaux"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03262GER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain de Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: 12 Rue des Écoles, 50340 Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard, France
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D62-D131 crossroads, E of the D650, 2-3 km SSE of Les Pieux, about 25 km SW of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et d’Avranches
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century (?), Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Surtainville)
Church Notes: listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00110570]: "16e siècle ; 17e siècle"
Font Notes:
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Described in Vivier-Seguin as a plain square basin, large but shallow, supported on a central column and four corner colonnettes; the latter have their capitals in the body of the basin, the capitals being three with leaf shapes and one rough; the bases of the columns have torus but these are also carved into the plinth (Vivier, 1941). Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM50005672]: "Les fonts datent de la fin du 12e siècle ou du début du 13e siècle. La cuvette a été ajoutée au 18e siècle [...] Calcaire : taillé ; plomb [...] Cuvette semi-circulaire et couvercle en plomb muni d'un trou central [...] H = 96, l = 82, la = 28 (fonts) ; h = 25,5 (cuve) ; l = 33, la = 21 (intérieur) [...] Bas-côté nord, côté ouest
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.485812, -1.782088
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 29′ 8.92″ N, 1° 46′ 55.52″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: the lead insert has a drain hole so presumably does the stone basin
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 28 x 82 cm*
Notes on Measurements: *Palissy [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-24 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