Petit-Celland / Le Petit-Celland / Sellant / Serlant

INFORMATION

FontID: 03270PET

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Formerly at the Eglise paroissiale du Petit-Celland [now disappeared]

Church Location: 3 Rte du Presbytere, 50370 Le Petit-Celland, France

Country Name: France

Location: Manche, Normandie

Directions to Site: Le Petit-Celland is located off the D106, about 15 km E of Avranches, 5-6 km NW of La Chapelle-Urée, site of another such lost font

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Bayeux

Historical Region: L'Avranchin

Font Location in Church: Disappeared

Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Early Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: La Chapelle-Urée?

Church Notes: original church 9thC(?) destryed in Viking invasion; re-built 11thC; present church 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Reported by Vivier-Seguin in 1941 as a lost font; they give Le Héricher's description: "block énorme, mal arrondi, reposant sur trois pierres brutes en forme de piliers. Vous croiriez voir un dolmen".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.696611, -1.210972

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 41′ 47.8″ N, 1° 12′ 39.5″ W

UTM: 30U 631644 5395275

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Vivier, Em., Les Anciens fonts baptismaux du Département de la Manche, Avranches: Presses de "L'Opinion de la Manche", 1941