Surtainville / Sortainville / Sortinvilla

INFORMATION

Font ID: 03263SUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Pierre de Surtainville
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 12thC church; re-built 18thC
Church Address: 2 Route de la Sensurière, 50270 Surtainville, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the D117, W of the D650, abour 7 km S of Les Pieux
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et d’Avranches
Historical Region: Le Cotentin
Font Notes:
Vivier-Seguin describe this font as having a plain square basin and a base of five columns, one central, four at angles, the capitals of the latter in the body of the basin as in the font at St-Germain-le-Gaillard (Vivier, 1941). The entry for this church in the French Wikipedia reports a 15th-century baptismal font in it ["des fonts baptismaux du XVe"]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 586063 5479141
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.458821, -1.812393
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 27′ 31.76″ N, 1° 48′ 44.62″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Vivier-Seguin)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

  • Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941, p. 35