Flamanville

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Saint-Germain de Flamanville - Fonts baptismaux" - showing the original tripartite basin interior

Image Source: digital phptpgraph 12 August 2012 by Xfigpowet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Saint-Germain_de_Flamanville_-_Fonts_baptismaux.JPG] [accessed 24 March 2025]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 03265FLA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 17th century (?), Late Medieval?

Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Germain de Flamanville

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Germanus of Auxerre [aka Germans, German, Germain]

Church Notes: church of 1670

Church Address: Rue du Château, 50340 Flamanville, France -- Tel.: +33 2 33 52 48 35

Site Location: Manche, Normandie, France, Europe

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 Notes: Click to view

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

UTM: 30U 582103 5487051

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.53051, -1.86538

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 31′ 49.84″ N, 1° 51′ 55.37″ W

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, p. 36