Pierreville
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03264PIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Surtainville
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Notre-Dame de Pierreville [aka Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Pierreville]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nve
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 1-3 Rte de l'Église, 50340 Pierreville, France
Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe
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 Notes:
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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
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.473137, -1.783944
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, p. 35