Pierreville

INFORMATION

FontID: 03264PIE

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame de Pierreville [aka Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Pierreville]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 1-3 Rte de l'Église, 50340 Pierreville, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Located off the D226, E of the D650, 4-5 km S of Les Pieux

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Coutances et d’Avranches

Historical Region: Le Cotentin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nve

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Surtainville

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Vivier-Seguin (1941) describe it as a plain square basin mounted on a broad central pedestal with four constructional colonnettes, some of the latter broken and not very successfully restored

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.473137, -1.783944

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 28′ 23.29″ N, 1° 47′ 2.2″ 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