Gefosses
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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INFORMATION
FontID: 03267GEF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: [formerly at the Eglise paroissial de Saint-Samson de Gefosses]
Church Patron Saints: St. Samson [aka Sampson] [bishop of Dol † 565]
Church Location: [address and coordinates are for the parish church: 50560 Geffosses, France]
Country Name: France
Location: Manche, Normandie
Directions to Site: Located off the D53-D393 crossroads, about 15 kms NW of Coutances, just E of la Barbotterie
Historical Region: Canton de Lessay / Basse-Normandie
Font Location in Church: Not in the church; reused as a base for the carrefour cross
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Vains?
Font Notes:
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Vivier-Seguin (1941) report that there is a granite block which now [ca. 1941] serves as base to a carrefour cross, known as "Croix de l'École",; this block is all that remains of the old Romanesque font at Gefosses. Citing Renault as source, V-S describe the font at Gefosses as having a plain square basin with tapering in sides supported by a central column and four additional colonnettes. The only ornamentation on it is a scotia all around the basin top half (Vivier, 1941)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.1319, -1.5578
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 7′ 54.84″ N, 1° 33′ 28.08″ W
UTM: 30U 605206 5443120
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite (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