Flamanville
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Germain de Flamanville - Fonts baptismaux" - showing the original tripartite basin interior
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03265FLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Germain de Flamanville
Church Patron Saints: St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]
Church Location: Rue du Château, 50340 Flamanville, France -- Tel.: +33 2 33 52 48 35
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Flamanville is located off the D4-D65 crossroads, about 25 km SW of Cherbourg, right on the coast at Cap-de-Flamanville. Other listed fonts nearby.
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 17th century (?), Late Medieval?
Church Notes: church of 1670
Font Notes:
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As shown and described in Vivier-Seguin (1941), the cube-shaped basin is plain and mounted on five plain columns, one at the centre and four at the angles. The font cover is a wooden pyramid about as tall as the basin (Vivier, 1941). NB: the tripartite division of the basin interior suggests this is a late-medieval font, perhaps as late as the 16th or 17th century (unless it is totally a one-of].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.53051, -1.86538
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 31′ 49.84″ N, 1° 51′ 55.37″ W
UTM: 30U 582103 5487051
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: no lining
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: Tall pyramid.
REFERENCES
Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941